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.