Avalanche in Spanish Pyrenees kills three skiers

An avalanche near a Spanish Pyrenees mountain resort killed three skiers and injured another on Monday, police said, the latest deadly natural disaster to strike the country in days.

The bodies of two men and a woman were found in Panticosa, an area in the northeastern region of Aragon popular with long-distance skiers, after an avalanche on the Tablato peak, the Civil Guard said. Six people were practicing ski mountaineering when the disaster struck. One woman was lightly injured with hypothermia and the two other skiers were unhurt.