00:00Five German mountaineers have died after being struck by an avalanche in northern Italy.
00:07Three bodies had already been recovered on Saturday.
00:11Two men and a woman between the age of 30 and 50.
00:14Due to weather conditions the operations were suspended during the night
00:18and on Sunday rescue operations resumed and two other bodies were recovered.
00:23He probably had 17 years, but we are not sure because that was only told by the two witnesses who saw the avalanche.
00:33But what is sure is that father and son, we are sure.
00:39Two men survived the accident and were airlifted to a nearby hospital in Bolzano.
00:45According to a spokesperson for the mountain rescue team,
00:48there was actually no particularly high avalanche risk on Saturday.
00:52It is possible that the avalanche came loose because of newly fallen snow
00:56that had not yet sufficiently bonded to the ground.
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