Spanish Mountains Claim Five Lives over Weekend
Five climbers plunged to their deaths from the rocky, snow-covered peaks of a central Spanish mountain range in two accidents at the weekend, rescuers said.
On Sunday, two men and a woman tumbled from the Cuerno del Almanzor, a rocky, tower-shaped formation near Pico Almanzor, the highest mountain in central Spain's Sierra de Gredos range, the emergency services said.
A witness who alerted rescuers saw the trio during their ascent "and lost sight of them after the fall", the region's emergency services said in a statement. Police and emergency services recovered the bodies, which had no identification.
The day before, rescuers and police picked up the bodies of two Spanish men aged 41 and 45 who fell to their deaths from a climb known as La Arana, in the same mountain range.
Source: Agence France Presse
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