BREAKING NEWS: 3 dead, 6 missing in Canada avalanche
02/01/2003
Associated Press
REVELSTOKE, British Columbia -- Three skiers are dead and six are missing after the second deadly avalanche near Revelstoke, British Columbia, in less than a month.
No word yet on where the skiers were from.
Eight other members of the group of 17 skiers swept up in the slide were rescued and airlifted to Glacier Park Lodge by helicopter.
Mountain that was the scene of last month's deadly avalanche. (KGW Photo)
Their injuries were reported to be minor, according to Bob Pearce of the B.C. Ambulance Service.
Pearce said park wardens and members of the ski patrol, assisted by search dogs, were searching for the missing skiers.
The slide occurred Saturday in Glacier National Park, east of Revelstoke, in the Rogers Pass area known as Knock Creek.
Seven people died in a January 20th avalanche in the same area of east-central British Columbia.
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