OSLO, Norway — Police say an avalanche buried six Swiss and French tourists in northern Norway on Monday, killing five of them.
One person was dug out alive and taken to a hospital and another was missing after the snowslide near Tromsoe on Norway’s Arctic coast.
Of the six people struck by the avalanche, one was a French citizen and five were Swiss nationals, Tromsoe police spokesman Morten Pettersen said.
He said rescuers had detected signals from their avalanche transceivers buried in the snow.