Several people have been buried by an avalanche in Austria near its border with Germany, it was reported.

An avalanche at the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana has buried "several people" and rescue teams have been deployed, police said.

A 12-year-old boy has been found alive after being buried under an avalanche for 40 minutes in the French Alps.

Three skiers have been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps and two others have been taken to hospital with light injuries, police said.

Four skiers have been killed and another is missing after an avalanche in the southern Alps, French authorities said.

A man and his 11-year-old daughter have been killed in an avalanche while skiing in the French Alps.

Twelve people, including eight soldiers, skiing on the slopes of a volcano near a famous hot spring resort in central Japan were injured by flying rocks during a sudden eruption, officials said, with one soldier dying from his injuries.

Four helicopters were evacuating some 100 tourists and hotel workers from a four-star mountainside hotel and a nearby guesthouse in northern Italy after an avalanche overnight, civil protection authorities have said.

Three people have died in an avalanche that struck the Alpine ski resort of Bonneval-sur-Arc in France, officials said.

Eight Japanese high school students are feared dead after being caught in an avalanche during a mountain climbing outing at a ski resort, authorities and media said.

A search and rescue operation is now over.

At least four people have died following an avalanche in the French Alps.

At least 107 people have been killed by avalanches caused by heavy snow in different parts of Afghanistan, nearly doubling an earlier death toll estimate of 54.

Rescue crews have recovered several more bodies from the rubble of an Italian hotel crushed by an avalanche, bringing the toll to 23, as they mourned colleagues killed in a nearby helicopter crash.

Hopes of finding more survivors after a devastating avalanche buried an Italian resort hotel are fading as the death toll rose to 17, with 12 people still unaccounted for.

The death toll from an avalanche in central Italy has climbed to 12, with 17 people still missing at a mountain resort buried by tons of snow and rubble.

Update 12.30: Eight people including two children have been found alive in the rubble of an Italian hotel that was engulfed by an avalanche, police have said, according to news agency Ansa.

The Department of Foreign Affairs says they have no indication of any Irish citizens caught up in the deadly avalanche at a hotel in Italy.

Update 10.30am: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is aware of an avalanche in Abruzzo, Italy. There are no indications of any Irish citizens being involved.

The bodies of three climbers, including a Polish-British woman, buried in an avalanche of ice and snow on the Mont Blanc massif have been found and dug out from the thick ice.

Six skiers have died in an avalanche on Monte Nevoso in the Italian Alps

A “very large” avalanche in British Columbia, Canada, has left five snowmobile riders dead.

An avalanche in the French Alps has killed five soldiers on a training exercise and left others injured, according to a rescue official.

The teacher who accompanied school pupils swept away by a deadly avalanche in the French Alps is suspected of involuntary manslaughter, a French prosecutor says.

An avalanche in the French Alps has swept seven climbers to their deaths on one of the region’s most popular routes. The avalanche struck three groups of roped climbers, said Pierre Besnard, the prefect of the Hautes-Alpes region.

An avalanche in the French Alps has swept five climbers to their deaths and left two missing.

Mount Everest has opened to climbers for the first time since an earthquake-triggered avalanche in April killed 19 mountaineers and ended the popular spring climbing season.

A terrifying video has been loaded onto YouTube of the moment a group of climbers on Mount Everest were forced to run for their lives after the avalanche that was triggered by the massive earthquake that struck Nepal.

Three foreign tourists – two Austrians and an Italian – have died in an avalanche in the French Alps, officials said.