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Eight backcountry skiers were confirmed killed and a ninth was presumed to have perished when their tour group was overtaken by a football-pitch-sized avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains on Tuesday, in the deadliest US avalanche in 45 years, authorities said. Six survivors were rescued after search teams on skis fought through blinding snow, darkness, treacherous terrain and gale-force winds to reach them in the rugged Castle Peak area near Truckee, California, about 10 miles (16km) north-west of Lake Tahoe. A rescue team departs to the site of an avalanche in a backcountry slope of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, where a group of skiers were stranded, in Nevada County, California, U.S. February 17, 2026. —Reuters The group of 15 skiers, including four guides from outfitter Blackbird Mountain Guides, was heading back to a trailhead in heavy snow after a three-day excursion when the avalanche struck around 11:30am PT on Tuesday. The surviving skiers, who took refuge in a makeshift shelter c...

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At least eight people were killed Saturday when a hot-air balloon with 21 passengers caught fire in southern Brazil, a state governor said. It was the second fatal balloon accident in the vast South American country in less than a week. “Eight fatalities and 13 survivors,” Santa Catarina state governor Jorginho Mello said on X. […]

At least eight people were killed on Saturday when a hot air balloon with 21 passengers caught fire in southern Brazil, said the governor of Santa Catarina state, where the incident occurred. “Eight fatalities and 13 survivors,” Governor Jorginho Mello said on X. Videos taken by bystanders and carried on Brazilian television showed the moment when the balloon erupted in flames above the coastal town of Praia Grande. The weather conditions were clear. The basket carrying the passengers plummeted dozens of meters to the ground in flames. “We still have no information” about the condition of the survivors, a spokeswoman for Santa Catarina firefighters told AFP. Praia Grande, on the Atlantic coast, is a popular destination for hot-air ballooning in Brazil. View this post on Instagram The survivors were being treated in area hospitals, firefighters said. An investigation was launched to determine the cause of the accident. “I want to express my solidarity with the families of the victims,” Brazilian President Luiz...