WORLD BRIEFING / TURKEY
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
An avalanche slammed into a group of 17 Turkish hikers on a trip to a remote mountain plateau, dragging them more than 1,640 feet into a valley and fatally burying 10.
The members of a skiing and mountaineering club were taking part in an annual winter sports celebration on 7,200-foot Mt. Zigana.
“We looked up and there was nowhere to run,” survivor Kasim Keles told reporters from his hospital bed.
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