Another person was injured and has been hospitalised, while their guide escaped unharmed from the avalanche in the area around Entraunes in the southern Alps, local authorities in the Alpes-Maritimes department said. Four skiers were killed and another is missing after an avalanche occurred in Entraunes

A sixth was injured following the region’s deadliest avalanche this winter, in Entraunes, near the French Alps’ Italian border. Georges-Francois Leclerc, chief of the Alpes-Maritimes region, said the avalanche had struck people who were ski touring with their guide in an off-piste area near the Mercantour national park. Nice (France) (AFP) - At least four skiers were killed Friday in an avalanche in the French Alps, the deadliest of the winter so far, police said. More than a dozen people have died in avalanches in the French Alps this ski season, in addition to those killed in other parts of the mountain range. French authorities had warned against a high risk of avalanches in the Alps following heavy SNOW fall in recent days, and the prosecutor called that "a decisive element."
An avalanche near Entraunes in southeastern France, kills at least four people and leaves another one missing.