Japan Avalanche Kills 8 Teenagers Eight teenagers from

Japan Avalanche Kills 8 Teenagers

Eight teenagers from a high school mountaineering club were killed Monday during an avalanche in an area of northeastern Japan that had been blanketed by unusually heavy spring snows. The students were climbing in an area about 100 miles north of Tokyo. The weather bureau had issued an avalanche warning on Sunday. As crews worked to find and rescue the survivors, television news footage showed a row of ambulances and other emergency vehicles waiting in the stillfalling snow at the base of the resort. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke of the disaster in Parliament, saying officials were “making every effort to respond. ” The avalanche occurred just before 9: 30 a. m. , not long after the students would have set out on their climb. According to the weather bureau, about a foot of snow fell on the area overnight, and relatively warm temperatures made the accumulation especially unstable.

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