Two dead after avalanche in Val Formazza

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 7 - Two people are dead after being hit by an avalanche on Sunday in the Val Formazza, a valley in the Piedmont province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, rescuers said.
    The avalanche took place between Lake Toggia and the San Giacomo pass, at an altitude of about 2,200 metres, not far from the Swiss border.
    Rescuers have pulled the body of one of the victims out of the snow and, at the time of writing, were in the process of recovering the corpse of the other deceased person from the lake.
    Photo: an archive image of an Alpine Rescue helicopter. (ANSA).