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Saturday 31 October 2020
The cause of the fire at the ski resort of Courchevel was not immediately known.
Four people, including an Italian man and two French women, were killed in three separate accidents.
The Sligo murder investigation, preparations for this week’s severe cold weather and continued air strikes in Syria…
An investigation has been launched into the incident.
In other extreme weather, three hundred goats were killed in the wildfire at Chiatra-Canale di Verde.
Over 4,000 travellers have been stranded due to the heavy snow.
They were all rescued in time for Christmas Day.
Five people are still buried under a huge mass of snow,” said a rescue official.
Four separate accidents caused the five deaths.
The mother of one of the girls said she had caught her daughter trying to leave for Syria two years ago.
They were among a group of 50 soldiers taking part in a skiing exercise.
He died after jumping off the 2,525 metre-high summit of Le Brevent.
There was an Irishman on board who has shared the story.
Andreas Lubitz is understood to have had treatment “several years ago”.
It also emerged today that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, believed to have crashed the plane, sought treatment for problems with his sight.
Between 400 and 600 pieces of remains have been recovered.
The plane, carrying 144 passengers, plunged for eight minutes before hitting the side of a mountain – with no survivors.
As the racing legend lies in coma on his 45th birthday, it emerged that the impact of his accident split his helmet in two.
See how they did it…
Police in Britain have arrested Zaid al-Hilli in connection with the murder of his brother Saad, his wife and his mother-in-law in the French Alps last year.
The French prosecutor investigating the shooting dead of four people in the French Alps last month was denying an earlier report that the cyclist and not the family were shot first.
Their bodies were found in the north of the island earlier today.
The girl’s younger sister has returned to Britain as police continue to probe the shooting that has shocked Europe.
Zeena al-Hilli will be accompanied by her aunt and uncle who travelled to France to bring her home as French police say they are to re-examine the crime scene in the Alpine beauty spot.
Officers from the French police have arrived at the Surrey home of the family who were shot dead while on holiday in the French Alps earlier this week.
Seven-year-old Zainab remains in a medically induced coma after being shot and badly beaten in the attack.
Mystery deepens as chief prosecutor rules out hypothesis of a family dispute causing the shooting dead of four people. Investigators are waiting to talk to one of the two young girls who survived the attack.
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
The Franch president Francois Hollande today vowed to ‘do everything’ to find the killers.
The two men, aged 24 and 26, were discovered at the bottom of the south face of Mount Rouies in the Massif des Ecrins.
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
Eight people are also reported injured in the incident, which occurred as the people were climbing Mont Maudit at 5.25am today.
A 40-year-old seasonal worker died in the crash over the weekend.
WE’RE JUST A day out from the spookiest night of the year.
Halloween will look a bit different this year, with no trick-or-treating advised.
Nonetheless, there are plenty of traditions that we can still continue from the safety of our own homes, one being pumpkin carving.
So, today we want to know: Have you carved a pumpkin for Halloween this year?
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Windy; a little a.m. rain, then a shower
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