Another person has been injured and one more is missing after the avalanche in the area around Entraunes, near Italy in the southern Alps, national police said on Twitter.
Georges-Francois Leclerc, chief of the Alpes-Maritimes region, said the avalanche had struck people who were skiing off-piste near the Mercantour national park.
A rescue operation was under way.
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