Foreigners among seven dead in French Alps avalanche: UPDATED

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The avalanche hit three groups of climbers, leaving one survivor seriously injured, on the Dôme de Neige des Ecrins mountain near Pelvoux.

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Seven people died in an avalanche Tuesday that struck a French Alps mountain hugely popular with climbers, according to local officials in the Hautes-Alpes region, reports The Washington Post.