Mountain rescuers intervened on
Saturday night to rescue a group of migrants stuck in snow in
the upper Susa valley while trying to cross into France on foot.
The group of seven men and two women was located at an altitude
of 2,350 metres in an area below Mount la Plane in the Alpine
town of Claviere in Piemonte.
One of the women was suffering from hypothermia.
Rescuers accompanied the group down the mountain to Claviere,
where the woman suffering from hypothermia was taken to hospital
and the other people entrusted to the Italian Red Cross.
Migrants and refugees arriving in or transiting through Italy
frequently brave the treacherous Alpine crossing into France on
their journey north.
Archive photo of a mountain rescue operation involving migrants
trapped in snow in the upper Susa valley.
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