the Ambulance in the Italian alps, informs on Monday that a total of nine skiers have lost their lives in avalanches.

The fierce an avalanche happened Sunday, and they hit the skiers, who had moved outside the marked slopes.

Rescuers found the former three died near Courmayeur, close to the border to Switzerland in the Valle d’aosta, and a fourth victim was found in the same place later on Monday, says a spokesman.

AFP wrote earlier that it was two frenchmen and two britons, who had been led astray and was caught by an avalanche.

a Further five have perished. One of them was buried under snemasserne in the mountains north of Milan, and another in the German speaking province of south tyrol.

The Italian authorities had over the weekend warned that lavinefaren was great.

Why had the rescue party work careful during the work to find the missing people.

Skisportsentusiaster had in advance been encouraged by emergency services to day day to check how big lavinefaren was and to ‘carry out all the activities with the greatest caution’, writes the BBC.