An avalanche in Lech/Zürs am Arlberg was less severe than initially feared. Initially, ten people were searched for. Shortly before 1 a.m., the police announced that four people were injured, one of them seriously, but that the other six people were not affected by the avalanche.
Nevertheless, “a security search will be carried out today for final clarification”. Shortly before 3 p.m. yesterday, a report was received of an avalanche in Zürs, in the area of Trittkopf. The runway below was also relocated over a length of 500 to 600 meters.
On the mobile phone video of a witness standing in the distance, ten winter sports enthusiasts could be seen in the area of the avalanche path. That had aroused concern about ten buried people and triggered a large-scale operation with up to 200 rescuers at times. In the course of the large-scale rescue operation, a partially buried man was rescued from the avalanche. He was flown to Innsbruck Regional Hospital with serious injuries. In the course of the evening, the people who can be seen on the video reported. Some of them drove down into the valley independently and initially did not report their involvement in the avalanche accident.