An avalanche on Boulder mountain near Revelstoke, British Colombia in Canada has killed three people and injured 17 but several others are missing and a search is underway, say the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The avalanche occurred during the Big Iron Shootout snowmobile contest, an annual event that has sparked controversy and raised tensions with local residents in the four years it has been running, partly because of safety concerns.
Links to other sites: CBC, CNN, RCMP, Vancouver Sun
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 14 March 2010 at 11:56 |
permalink
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
News story, GenevaLunch, 14 March 2010.
Filed under: World news
Tags: avalanche, Big Iron Shootout, Boulder Mountain, British Colombia, Canada, snowmobilers
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
We are happy to have your comments,
which are approved before they appear: please remember to be courteous and brief.
We accept only comments directly related to an article. We do not accept comment
spam - messages sent to more than one site. We do not publish comments if the
e-mail address is not legitimate. Thank you!