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Iranian state television said on Saturday that at least 10 climbers were killed in the mountains north of Tehran, Iran’s capital, due to avalanches and a snow storm. Since Friday other climbers are also missing. Rescue operations, slowed down by bad weather, were interrupted on Saturday night and will resume on Sunday: they focus on the Tochal and Kolakchal peaks of the Alborz mountain range, an area much frequented by mountain lovers in the capital.
The Iranian Red Crescent, the Islamic counterpart to the Red Cross, is employing 20 rescue teams and said it has already rescued 14 climbers. On social media, some people have spoken about a malfunction of the GPS systems, which mountaineers depend on in the mountains, but it is unclear if this may have affected the behavior of people who died and disappeared due to the storm. of snow and avalanches.
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