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LAST UPDATE | 13 Jan 2019
THREE GERMAN SKIERS have been killed and a fourth is missing following an avalanche in Austria, police said on Sunday as snowfall set in again in the northern Alps.
The bodies of the men, aged 57, 36 and 32, were recovered on Saturday evening near the ski resort of Lech, a few hours after the wife of one of the skiers reported them missing.
Police in Vorarlberg, Austria’s westernmost province, said they had to call off the search for another missing German skier in the group, who is 28, because of heavy snow and a further risk of avalanches.
Police said the four friends had apparently skied onto a trail that was closed.
Although they had avalanche protection equipment and deployed airbags, the victims were buried by the avalanche and suffered multiple injuries. They were located with the help of mobile phone tracking.
Meanwhile, two employees at a ski resort in the French Alps died on Sunday when the avalanche-control charges they were trying to set accidentally went off, mountain rescue experts said.
The accident took place at an altitude of 1,800 metres as the pair from the Morillon ski resort “were working on an avalanche prevention programme”, one of the experts said.
The avalanche brings to at least 26 the number of weather-related deaths reported in parts of Europe this month.
On Saturday, authorities in southern Germany and Austria used a break in the weather to clear heavy loads of snow from roofs and roads, but snow set in again on Saturday night.
In the Bavarian town of Kempten, local authorities closed 11 sports halls as a precaution until Tuesday because the weight of snow on their roofs was expected to increase, the German news agency dpa reported.
Trains on part of the route between the German cities of Munich and Lindau, on Lake Constance near the Austrian border, were traveling more slowly than usual because of a risk of that trees weighed down by snow could fall onto the tracks.
Balderschwang, a small Alpine resort on Germany’s border with Austria, was cut off on Sunday as the pass leading into it was closed for fear of avalanches.
In central Switzerland, trains carrying cars through the Furka tunnel were suspended because of an avalanche on a nearby road.
With additional reporting from AFP.
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The only current affairs programme in the world that’s comedy gold
Yeah Druid but he can fixate on things sometimes and be a bit of a bully, but always watchable
I love Vincent but agree he occasionally catches onto the wrong detail in an argument and let’s more serious issues slip. But by and large a great asset to this country.
Vincent Browne deserves a Political Pension – He has done more for democracy in Ireland than all of Ff fg and lab in the current Dail – i.m.o.
This is a clip of him giving it to Bertie …. a set of questions that is ….
Two words guaranteed to leave enda Kenny needing an urgent change of underpants……….Vincent brown.
Oh Vincent Brown, of all the Vincent Browns in the world, your the Vincent Browniest .
VB is a national treasure.
I watched him for the first time in a while last night.
I don’t think he’s back to the full of his health since the pneumonia, but he seems even more crotchety and abrasive with his guests than ever before.
May he get to do MANY more shows, and continue putting it up to sleeveens wherever they present themselves.
This man is a hero of mine!
Would love if they replayed some of the Mario Rosenstock clips ! Comedy gold
I wish Vinny all the best.
Used to be a big fan but since the Irish Water fiasco started he has unfortunately shown time and again that he has sold out to Denis O’Brien. It hurts to say it but he’s just not the force he was at all. The show descends into meaningless farce on a regular basis with eejits like Marie Louise O’Donnell talking nonsense. Last night’s show was the best in ages so we’ll see.
Happy 1001 anyway !
The man is a machine.
He was on Ireland AM at 7:30 this morning after finishing late last night.
To be fair, he was a little cranky but who wouldn’t be with that much sleep? I’m considering changing my angry chicken avatar to him in his honour.
I hope they show the clip where the FG’er Bernard just will not shut up, Willie 0′dea couldn’t get a word in, fionnan sheehan nearly fell off his chair laughing. One of the best ever. If not its worth checking out on youtube.
And the time Joan Burton lost the rag with Joe Higgins
“Stop haranguin’ me Vencennnt!!
Are they not called tampons lol.
If you want to know the government’s thinking on the need for a snap election then watch the guests on Vincent Browne – He has promised to give them as much time as they returned to his offers to appear on the show when they refused-
I would live to find out the things Vincent knows about some of the politicians which he can’t repeat due to libel etc
Absolutely. But it would probably create a civil unrest.
Go on, go on just go on,
Ya ya ya will ya continue
Ya ya yaaaaa jeez ya
GO ON WILL YA!
His memory is phenomenal…. Don’t you just love when some old party hack starts spoofing and Vin can quote exactly what was said and then watch the hack squirming!.. Great pleasure indeed…. Irriplacable…
Irreplaceable .., sorry
What would Vincent think of this, Bieden being racist towards all the Irish…
Vice President Biden: “I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid.”
TTIP TTIP Hooray lol.
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