ROME (AP) — Five German mountaineers died after being hit by an avalanche in South Tyrol, in northern Italy, rescuers said on Sunday. Three victims — two men and a woman — had already been recovered dead on Saturday, while the bodies of two other missing people, a man and his 17-year-old daughter, were found on Sunday morning.

All five missing mountaineers from Germany have died in an avalanche disaster in the Ortler mountainous region in South Tyrol. The last two missing bodies of a German man and his 17-year-old daughter were located on Sunday by Italian rescue teams.

Unstable snow and fluctuating weather conditions brought on by Cyclone Monica are believed to have caused the avalanche. Five tourists and ten Nepali high-altitude guides set out roughly an hour before the slide occurred near the base camp of Yalung Ri Peak.

An avalanche caught seven tourists in South Tyrol while they were heading up a mountain on a ski tour. Two escaped unharmed, but the other five died.

Five German climbers have died after being caught in an avalanche in the Italian Alps, local authorities said on Sunday.

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ROME: Five German climbers, including a 17-year-old girl, were killed in an avalanche in the Dolomite mountains