3 Italian tourists trapped in avalanche found dead in Svaneti
A group of 10 Italian tourists were skiing off piste, in a zone where skiing is forbidden. Photo: IPN.
Tweet 
Share
3 Italian tourists have been found dead after getting trapped in an avalanche in the winter resort of Tetnuldi, in the western Svaneti region of Georgia today, reports the press office of the Mountain Resorts Development Company (MRDC).
A group of 10 Italian tourists were skiing off piste, in a zone where skiing is forbidden. With the assistance of the employees of the Emergency Management Service four Italians have been escaped. One of them has multiple fractures”, said the press office of MRDC.
This is the second case of such accident that occurred in Svaneti this year.
On February 11, 2020, after a two-day rescue search operation Georgian rescuers found the body of Ukrainian tourist who was trapped in an avalanche.
Mountain Resorts Development Company, which is responsible for the management and development of the resort, has reported that a group of four Russian tourists was skiing in a “forbidden zone” without the necessary equipment, when the young woman got trapped in an avalanche.
Georgian rescuers have saved four Czech tourists after they got trapped in an avalanche in the winter resort of Tetnuldi, in the western Svaneti region of Georgia yesterday.
A group of Russian tourists have been saved by Georgian rescuers after getting trapped in an avalanche in Georgia’s high mountainous region of Svaneti.
Reascuers have saved four American citizens in the village of Omalo, in Georgia’s historical region of Tusheti. The Emergency Management Service of Interior Ministry received information the tourists were injured earlier today. Three women and a man were taken to Ghudushauri hospital in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi for treatment on a Border Police helicopter.
Three Italian tourists, who have been trapped in an avalanche in the winter resort of Tetnuldi, in the western Georgian region of Svaneti earlier today, have been saved. Reportedly, one of the tourists, who was badly injured, was delivered to a hospital in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on a Border Police helicopter.
A Swiss tourist, who went missing on Guli Pass in Mestia municipality, has been found dead earlier today.