Searchers rescue two left for dead after avalanche
Searchers rescued two reindeer herders today who had been left for dead after an avalanche roared through a village on Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, killing nine others, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
The ministry had reported yesterday that 11 people, including four children, were killed in the avalanche in the village of Tymlad, in the Koryak Autonomous Region on the peninsula, about 4,200 miles east of Moscow.
