{"id":28303,"date":"2013-02-15T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T08:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/scotland-avalanche-two-died-192247076.html"},"modified":"2013-02-15T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T08:13:56","slug":"scotland-avalanche-three-people-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/scotland-avalanche-three-people-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Avalanche: Three People Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">A man and a woman who were caught up in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands have died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The avalanche was reported shortly after 12.30pm in the Chalamain Gap area of the Cairngorms.<\/p>\n<p>The two victims had been airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after mountain rescue teams carried out a search in the area, Northern Constabulary said.<\/p>\n<p>Another man who was flown to the same hospital remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said no further information would be given about those involved until their families have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Police had launched a search with mountain rescue teams, rescue dogs and a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue operation has been stood down, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It was the latest incident in the Scottish mountains in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a hillwalker died during an expedition with a mountaineering club in the Cairngorms.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Connell, 31, from Castleford, West Yorkshire, was found dead in the Jacob&#8217;s Ladder area on Monday, after a large-scale search for him and five other people who were reported overdue on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The other members in the party, who were unhurt, were picked up by an RAF rescue helicopter after being located by Braemar Mountain Rescue Team on a hill near Carn Tarsuinn.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, three men survived falling 150m in an avalanche in the Coire an t-Sneachda area of the Cairngorms.<\/p>\n<p>The men, who were wearing helmets, were airlifted to hospital with leg injuries.<\/p>\n<p>In January, four people were killed in an avalanche in Glencoe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man and a woman who were caught up in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands have died, police said.<br \/>\nThe avalanche was reported shortly after 12.30pm in the Chalamain Gap area of the Cairngorms.<br \/>\nThe two victims had been airlifted to Aberdeen Royal I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}