ROME—A skier was killed in an on the morning of May 9 in the Dolomites near the ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo in northern , Italy’s alpine rescue corps said.
The victim was a 23-year-old Italian man who was skiing with a group, including his brother, when the avalanche hit, said the rescue corps spokesman, Walter Milan. His body was retrieved by helicopter and taken to Cortina, a ski resort in the Veneto region, which was severely hit by the outbreak that emerged in Italy in late February.
More than 30,000 people have died as a result of the CCP virus in Italy since the crisis started, the third-highest death toll in the world.
Epoch Times staff contributed to this report.
