thu 14 jan 2016, 18:18

Teacher suspected after deadly avalanche

GRENOBLE –

A teacher with ten students was skiing on a closed ski slope in the French Alps when an avalanche was suspected of wrongful death. This has the French justice announced Thursday. Two of his pupils to the life to come.

The tourists keep a minute of silence.
Photo: AFP

In the avalanche Wednesday afternoon in the ski resort of Les Deux Alpes, two high school students, and a Ukrainian tourist to life. The teacher was severely injured. He has been arrested, reported the public prosecutor in Grenoble, Jean-Yves These, Thursday.

The police are investigating the circumstances of the incident. The students came from a high school in Lyon. They were with three teachers and 29 students from the first class to go skiing in the ski resort south of Grenoble. At the time of the massive avalanche, the group was on a closed piste on a dangerous north slope.