The avalanche on the Lackenspitz in the Salzburger Land kills three – large-scale deployment of the mountain rescue service
Tweng / Salzburg – Terrible tragedy in the Salzburger Land: a terrible avalanche accident occurred there on Saturday afternoon (December 4th) in the Lungau am Lackenspitz district. Three young men from Upper Austria died. In the meantime, further details about the drama have become known.
Update, 1.40 p.m. – Motocross talent among the fatalities
René H. († 19) was considered THE motocross talent in Austria. Now it is clear: The 19-year-old is one of the three victimswho died in the terrible accident on Saturday afternoon (December 4th) in Salzburg’s Lungau. Two of his friends died with him. Rene H. was only 19 years old. He would have celebrated his 20th birthday on January 4th. His team, the Austrian Red Bull KTM factory team, has now confirmed his death on social networks.
In an English-language Facebook post The team was deeply affected and expressed condolences to their family, relatives, friends and the entire motocross scene and wished much strength for the difficult time that followed.
Besides, hat to die State Police Directorate Salzburg now some more details about the accident announced: According to this, the group was on the ascent at about 1.35 p.m. on the summit slope of the Lackenspitze, when in the ridge area a width of about 200 meters opened up
Slab loosened. That Schneebrette recorded eight ski tourers from the group of eleven. Three people were completely buried, two partially buried.
Two of the completely buried tourers could located with search devices and then dug up by the mountain rescue team will. One young man could only be rescued dead. A second man was taken to a hospital in Klagenfurt by helicopter while being resuscitated, but there he died little. the police confirmed that the third fatalitywhich was only found in the late afternoon, no emergency equipment worn would have.
Update, 9.35 a.m. – All three dead come from Upper Austria
With regard to the identity of the three fatalities, there was initially some confusion and / or contradicting information on Saturday evening and Sunday morning (December 5). In the meantime, according to information from BGLand24.de, it is clear: The three victims are three men from Upper Austria.
So came the dead 24-year-old from the Wels-Land district. die two dead 19-year-olds comes from the districts of Urfahr-Umgebung and Grieskirchen. First, the mountain rescue reported that the dead came from Upper Austria, the Ennstal (Styria) and the Pongau (Salzburger Land).
The first message:
First findings of the Mountain rescue Salzburg and the State Police Directorate Salzburg A group of eleven people was presumed to have been skiing on the 2459 meter high mountain in the Radstädter Tauern when, at an altitude of around 2400 meters – also just below the summit – Loosened a dry slab of snow on a northeast slope. A total of eight ski tourers were swept away. Some were even completely buried in the process.
Although the mountain comrades now made an emergency call and immediately began to locate the buried victims, all help came too late for three ski tourers. Some of them were buried more than four meters deep, as announced by the Salzburg mountain rescue service. Two of the completely buried people could be dug up relatively quickly, although some of them had been buried up to four meters deep. Both were reanimated on site, one of the two was flown in a hospital to Klagenfurt (Carinthia) while being resuscitated, where he was shortly afterwards.
That According to the mountain rescue service, the third victim was traveling without emergency equipment and could not be excavated until around 5.15 p.m. – three and a half hours after the accident. Any help came too late for this person. die three dead men come from the Salzburg Pongau, the Ennstal and Upper Austria and were 24 and 19 (2x) years old, respectively, as the mountain rescue announced. Two other people were injured in the accident and taken to the hospital in Tamsweg.
The rescue workers were deployed with a large number: All in all 70 mountain rescuers, seven search dog teams, five helicopters and the alpine police were on duty at the avalanche cone. The slab was about 200 meters wide and 500 meters long. The affected northeast slope is riddled with rocks and partly steep up to 45 degrees.
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