According to the latest reports from Valais police; 4 were killed out of total 11 missing in a Mont Velan avalanche on Saturday, reported earlier here.
Jean-Marie Bornet, Local police spokesman, said earlier that at least three of the dead were buried by the avalanche. But lately he confirmed told that death toll reached to four after another victim passed away in hospital; while one is still missing.
The rescue operations were discontinued due to severe weather yesterday; which will be continued today subject to weather conditions.
The gloomy incident took place on Mont Velan, a towering 3,730-metre peak that overlaps the Swiss-Italian border.
Switzerland's National Avalanche Centre had warned of a “considerable” risk of snow-slides in the region on Saturday.
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