Nine climbers dead in Himalayas avalance as it hits French and German team as they prepared to reach mountain summit with a further four people missing and five injured
/ N; k5 |1 l/ r- Disaster happened on Mount Manaslu in the Himalayas of northern Nepal
- Nepalese guide understood to be among the dead
- Injured were airlifted to safety by helicopter
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4 e& [! g0 e% j4 F" l5.39.217.76At least nine climbers were killed today and another six were reported missing after they were hit by an avalanche on the world's eighth-highest mountain.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。! G1 |; ~+ d8 }$ F2 G
' Z5 \ E5 }" c/ B$ c6 c" N公仔箱論壇The team, which included French and German climbers, got into difficulty on the slopes of Mount Manaslu in the Himalayas of northern Nepal.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb# {8 j; _0 T/ ?% x9 }7 e2 x( d' ^- j
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Police official Basanta Bahadur Kuwar said the bodies of a Nepalese guide and a German man had been recovered.公仔箱論壇$ `; R& l U+ S) l/ j
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, F7 O: L- c. E. S( }6 RTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Shock: Locals and climbers gather at the base camp of Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal after an avalanche killed at least nine people
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Emergency: Rescuers arrive at the Nepalese mountain where at least nine people were killed in an avalanche
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Rescue pilots had spotted seven other bodies on the mountain's slopes, he added.
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8 Z( c9 ^8 R. L' b- z- kTenother members of the team survived the avalanche but many were injured and were being flown to hospitals by rescue helicopters, he said.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。, L2 I+ F1 j* }# z$ t* F
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Rescuepilot Pasang, who uses only one name, said three injured French citizens and two Germans had been transported to Katmandu.
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6 I5 L% a# i$ { q5.39.217.76 They included two French survivors - Claude Belmas, 52, and Armand Manel, 42 - who were taken to the clinic in wheelchairs.公仔箱論壇. w6 c) f! c0 G2 `2 |7 x5 X
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Help: An injured victim is rescued at the base camp of Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, after the avalanche公仔箱論壇( L# s6 }; D$ q9 S# v C
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5 M! i9 g& O7 x+ }Airlifted: An unidentified tourist is rescued from the mountain by helicopter after the avalanche in northern Nepaltvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% R4 v, P# o U R" f% Z
, g6 [" d2 X) C0 t6 Q% } k9 LTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Weather conditions were deteriorating and it was not possible to continue air searches of the mountain this afternoon, Kuwar said.
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9 b6 Q: `$ g! p, w; UThe avalanche happened as the climbers were at a camp 22,960ft high.7 Y) h- C: j" U/ g7 E! v7 s' R
They had been preparing to head towards the mountain's 26,760ft summit
0 @. n) f, X: [ i+ j* i) B* ~公仔箱論壇It is the beginning of Nepal's autumn mountaineering season.
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7 P. w' w' `# s! w# M1 }Saved: French survivors Claude Belmas (left) and Armand Manel (right) were rescued from the mountain and taken to a clinic in Katmandu in wheelchairs
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Survivors: Frenchmen Claude Belmas and Armand Manel give their details at the clinic in Katmandu, Nepal |