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Austria avalanches claim four lives
6 years agoFile Photo: An artificially triggered avalanche thunders down a mountain side at the Vallee de la Sionne in Anzere near Sion, Switzerland, February 3, 2015. The full-scale avalanche dynamics test site is providing scientists and engineers of the Swiss Institute of Research of Snow and Avalanches with essential data to understand and model avalanche motion. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Avalanches killed four people in western Austria's Tyrol region over the weekend, police said Monday.