Austria<\/a>, authorities said on Saturday.<\/p>\nThe government office of the Tirol region said intense snowfall over the last week had led to accumulations of up to 1.5 metres (5ft). Combined with strong winds and weak snowpack below, the conditions were especially susceptible to avalanches, it said.<\/p>\n
Tirol police said five off-piste skiers were caught up in a nearly 450-metre-wide avalanche on Friday afternoon in the St Anton am Arlberg area at an altitude of about 2,000 metres.<\/p>\n
An American and a Pole were among the five dead whose bodies were recovered after the avalanche, and a 21-year-old Austrian died of injuries after being taken to hospital, police said.<\/p>\n
Dozens of mountain-rescue team members, ambulance and fire department staffers, as well as several dog squads, were deployed for the operation.<\/p>\n
Late on Friday morning in the Nauders-Bergkastel resort to the south-east, a 42-year-old German man and his 16-year-old son were caught in an avalanche. The teen survived with injuries and called for help, but his father was killed.<\/p>\n
In Kl\u00f6sterle in the neighbouring Vorarlberg region, a 39-year-old Swiss snowboarder was caught and killed by an avalanche in an off-piste area, regional police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe recent snowfall is currently drawing many people to the mountains \u2013 even off-piste,\u201d Tirol\u2019s governor, Anton Mattle, said in a statement. \u201cIt is painful that we have already had to record several avalanches with injuries and fatalities.\u201d<\/p>\n
His office said nearly three dozen avalanche incidents were reported on Friday, among more than 200 over the past week. So far, 11 people have died in avalanches this month, the governor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo relief is in sight for Sunday either,\u201d the region office said. \u201cThe weather remains turbulent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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