A father and daughter have been killed in an avalanche in the French ski resort of Val d’Isere.
They had been skiing on a run which was closed due to the avalanche risk, local newspaper Le Dauphine said.
The paper reported that the two victims were a 44-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter, who were from the Paris region.
It happened near the Italian border at an altitude of 3,000 metres, Cecile Ferrando, a spokeswoman for the tourist centre at the ski station, told BFMTV.
The two skiers were part of a larger group, she added.
It came the same day as two people were taken to hospital in a separate avalanche in Switzerland, near the border with France.
Swiss media initially reported that 10 people were buried by the other avalanche, in the southern canton (state) of Valais.
But Valais police spokesman Stefan Leger says only two people pulled from the snow Sunday were hospitalised.
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