{"id":25319,"date":"2017-03-28T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=25319"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:00:16","slug":"japan-avalanche-kills-seven-students-and-a-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/japan-avalanche-kills-seven-students-and-a-teacher.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan avalanche kills seven students and a teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Japan avalanche kills seven students and a teacher<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Japan avalanche kills seven students and a teacher:- Seven students and a teacher have been killed in an avalanche during a high school trip.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The students were at the ski resort in the town of Nasu in Tochigi province, about 120 miles north of Tokyo.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The avalanche came down the hill at around 8.30am Monday local time.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Thirty-eight of the group were injured and two remain in a critical condition in hospital, authorities said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">One of the students told public broadcaster NHK that he had felt a strong wind and seen a white mass heading towards him.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">An instructor told him to get down before everyone was engulfed, he said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The group had been taking part in a three-day training scheme for members of school mountaineering clubs.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Heavy snow had fallen overnight, resulting in the cancellation of a planned climbing expedition. Instead, the students had been practising moving through heavy snow.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">An avalanche warning had been in place for the area. A local government official said there would be an investigation into why the group had been on the slopes at the time of the alert.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;We have avalanche incidents once or twice a year around here, but haven&#39;t had anything this big,&quot; a fire department official said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/japan-avalanche-kills-seven-students-and-a-teacher-10815786<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/japan-avalanche-kills-seven-students-and-a-teacher.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan avalanche kills seven students and a teacher Japan avalanche kills seven students and a teacher:- Seven students and a teacher have been killed in an avalanche during a high school trip. 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