Two mountaineers have been killed and one injured in an avalanche in Russia's Far Eastern republic of Yakutia.
According to Aleksey Khlybov, Yakutia's Emergencies Ministry spokesperson, eight mountaineers were crossing a pass in Yakutia’s mountainous region when the avalanche struck. The group called in rescuers and told them they had carried out a search themselves and found two of their friends dead and one injured under the snow. They are waiting for a rescue service helicopter to evacuate them from the area.