France on Wednesday evening that a landslide in the French Alps buried a passenger car on the national road 205 between Passy and Chamonix, a key route leading to the Mont Blanc tunnel.
Emergency services deployed firefighters to the scene to recover victims. According to the local newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré, two people were killed and two others injured in the incident.
The victims included a young man and his wife, who were seated in the back of the car, while the parents, seated in the fron,t survived with injuries.
The landslide caused major traffic disruptions along the vital road, which serves as a main link between northern Italy and southeastern France.
Authorities reported that the ground in the area remains unstable, keeping the road closed in the direction from Italy to France. The Mont Blanc tunnel was also closed to heavy trucks travelling from Italy into France.
The cause of the landslide has not yet been determined.
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