Rescue for missing climbers in France suspended due to bad conditions
25/8/2008 17:11
Rescue efforts to find eight climbers missing in an avalanche in the
French Alps, in the country's southeast, have been suspended due to worsening
conditions, local media said.
Search for the eight, five Austrians and three
Swiss, was forced to be halted for fear of another avalanche around place where
the accident occurred near western Europe's highest peak Mont Blanc, the reports
said.
Eight other climbers, four Frenchmen and four Italians, have been saved
or escaped the calamity with injuries, according to the reports.
Xinhua
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