At least four skiers were killed friday in an avalanche in the French Alps, police said.
Another person has been injured and one more is missing after the avalanche in the area around Entraunes, near Italy in the southern Alps, national police said on Twitter.
Georges-Francois Leclerc, chief of the Alpes-Maritimes region, said the avalanche had struck people who were skiing off-piste near the Mercantour national park.
A rescue operation was under way. (AFP)