Eight people have been found unharmed and two are still being sought after an avalanche in Austria buried around ten people in snow in the Lech/Zurs ski area in the western Austrian Vorarlberg, rescuers said, according to AFP.

10:50 in the evening The police, based on the skier’s video, initially reported about “about ten people buried”.

According to the spokesman, one of them managed to be saved, and the second managed to free herself and get to the hospital.

Six more people who appeared in the footage were eventually found safe.

“However, we have no news about the two people and we are continuing our search,” Hermann Vercher, director of the tourism office in charge of communications for the development of operations, told AFP.

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About 10 people were buried under an avalanche on Sunday in the Lech/Zurs ski area in the western Austrian state of Vorarlberg, the Austrian Press Agency (APA) said, adding that one person had been rescued, Reuters reported.

The avalanche came down around 3:00 p.m. (14:00 GMT), APA reported, adding that several helicopters and search teams were deployed soon after.

“We are doing everything possible to save winter sports enthusiasts,” said the Leh municipality, according to APA.

About 100 people are involved in the search.

Information about the victims was not provided.

Rescue teams warned this weekend of a high avalanche danger in the area, as well as in neighboring Tyrol, underscoring the fragility of the snowpack amid little warming.

In recent years, avalanches in Austria have caused an average of more than 20 deaths per year, writes AFP, cited by Agerpres.