A teenage boy was pulled from a massive 10ft deep avalanche which killed his parents and younger sister when it buried accommodation in a Arctic ski resort.
Six more people were feared buried beneath the deep snow in temperatures of -13F (-25C) in Norilsk, Russia.
The tourists were sleeping in small houses when the avalanche struck blanketing an area of 6,500 square feet at the winter sports base.
Schoolboy Makar Popov, 14, survived the giant avalanche in northern Russia but is badly frostbitten and sustained multiple fractures.
A 14-year-old boy survived a giant avalanche in Norilisk, northern Russia today after the snow slide blanketed 6,500 square feet of a ski resort
Mother of two, 18 months old baby dead, teenager injured after avalanche hits ski resort by Norilsk
09 January 2021
Father missing under snow; more than 200 people continue search and rescue at -23C, snowstorm and bleak light of polar night.
Volunteer Maksim Innikhov said from the rescue site: ‘We found parts of the houses where the family of four - director of the cable car Vlad Popov, his wife and children - were staying for a holiday. Picture: MCHS Krsk
Six houses were buried in a midnight avalanche at Mount Otdelnaya skiing complex outside Arctic city Norilsk, in the north of Krasnoyarsk region.