Avalanche in South Tyrol leaves at least two dead and three seriously injured.
Detachment in Ridanna Valley: four hospitals alerted, six helicopters in flight
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The provisional toll from an avalanche in Ridannna Valley that swept away a group of ten hikers is two dead and three seriously injured.
Two ski mountaineers were recovered dead from the snow masses, while another – of the three injured – was taken by the Austrian Christophorus rescue helicopter to the University Clinic in Innsbruck.
A total of six helicopters intervened on site (the three Pelikans from Alto Adige, the Aiut Alpin and the Guardia di Finanza and the Christophorus from Austria) and around eighty rescuers from all over the Alta Valle Isarco.
After the avalanche, hospitals in Bolzano, Merano, Bressanone, and Innsbruck, Austria, were alerted. The availability of intensive care beds and ECMO treatments, i.e.,
extracorporeal life support.
(Unioneonline)
