The avalanche,in which one person died and nine were injured, struck the town of Longyearbyen where coal-mining families and polar bears live side-by-side One person has been killed and nine others injured after an avalanche buried approximately 10 houses on the Svalbard archipelago in the heart of the Norwegian Arctic.
The governor’s office said a 40-year-old man was killed by the avalanche on the slopes of Mount Sukkertoppen overlooking Longyearbyen, or the archipelago’s remote capital where coal-mining families and polar bears live side by side.
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Source: theguardian.com