At least 17 people have died as a result of the avalanche that occurred last Sunday in the Bezengi Gorge, in the Caucasus region bordering Russia and Georgia, according to the latest official count.
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The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian region of Kabardino-Balkaria has reported the location of a body, the seventeenth, which has been transported to Nalchik by helicopter. The avalanche caught 33 mountaineers, 10 of whom were able to descend on their own, some with injuries. Since then, a rescue operation has been launched to try to locate the missing.
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