Russia: Avalanche rescue effort resumes

Rescuers were today picking through the trail of destruction left by a huge chunk of glacier that crashed down a mountainside in southern Russia, killing as many as 150 people.

Emergency workers had pulled out the remains of just five people from the mass of ice, mud and debris that the avalanche left in the Karmadon Gorge, said Ivan Teterin, commander of the Emergency Situations Ministry’s rescue effort.