Japan
Avalanche Kills
8 Teenagers
Eight teenagers from a high school mountaineering club were
killed Monday during an avalanche in an area of northeastern
Japan that had been blanketed by unusually heavy spring
snows. The students were climbing in an area about 100 miles
north of Tokyo. The weather bureau had issued an avalanche
warning on Sunday. As crews worked to find and rescue the
survivors, television news footage showed a row of
ambulances and other emergency vehicles waiting in the stillfalling snow at the base of the resort. Japan’s Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe spoke of the disaster in Parliament, saying
officials were “making every effort to respond.” The
avalanche occurred just before 9:30 a.m., not long after the
students would have set out on their climb. According to the
weather bureau, about a foot of snow fell on the area
overnight, and relatively warm temperatures made the
accumulation especially unstable.
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