This is the horrifying moment a giant avalanche engulfed a Russian mountain, killing a newly-married couple and four other snowboarders.
Yana Shanina, 25, her husband Vladimir Shanin, 29, were killed on Friday after an avalanche swept through northern hill slope of the Cheget Mountain in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Nina Sobol, 27, Alexander Ivanov, 34, and sportswoman Oksana Sannikova, 30, from Nizhny Novgorod, also died in the tragedy.
The two other boarders, two men, have not been named.
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The law enforcement in the Caucasus Mountains said today the snow sport enthusiasts ignored warning signs preventing them from snowboarding in that particular area, which was restricted.
They added the boarders ‘paid the ultimate price’.
Horrifying CCTV footage, posted on YouTube, shows the avalanche crashing down the mountain, with a shocked man heard desperately making a mobile call to his friend pleading: ‘We need to call Koshak.
Source: Russia avalanche engulfs Cheget Mountain, kills six | Daily Mail Online
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