TEHERAN, KOMPAS.com – At least 10 climber died and several others disappeared after the storm triggered an avalanche on the Alborz mountains, north of the capital Iran, Teheran.
According to state media reports on Saturday (26/12/2020), several climbers have not been found since Friday (25/12/2020).
The number of people who were reported missing on the climb in Alborz increased when the families concerned contacted the authorities, state television said.
Launch from The Guardian on Sunday (27/12/2020), 9 people died in the mountain and 1 died in hospital after being rescued, Mehdi Valipour, head of emergency operations at Red Crescent moon Iran, as quoted by the state broadcaster IRIB.
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Among those killed were a political activist, academician, doctor and mountaineer instructor, he was quoted as saying BBC on Sunday (27/12/2020).
The Red Crescent has deployed 20 teams that rescued 14 climbers, said BBC, with 7 climbers still missing on the 3 popular trails, Valipour previously said.
The search on Saturday (26/12/2020) was held when night fell, but will continue on Sunday morning (27/12/2020).
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A member of the Red Crescent team said the rescue mission had great challenges due to bad weather and snow.
State television broadcast footage of helicopter rescue operations over the Tochal and Kolakchal peaks of the Alborz mountain chain that stretches across Tehran.
At that time, Red Crescent personnel carried a corpse on a stretcher along the snowy mountain slopes.
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Tehran is situated at the foot of the Alborz mountains, which has several ski resorts and the highest peak of 5,671 meters.
At one point on Friday (25/12/2020), about 100 people were stranded high up at a ski resort when the cable car broke down.
There are warnings about possible avalanches, and also notify that the GPS system the climber relies on may be malfunctioning. BBC.
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Snow and strong winds have caused chaos in parts of Iran.
Apart from the incident in the mountains, maritime authorities are looking for 7 crew of an Iranian transport ship that capsized in the rugged Gulf waters on Friday, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported.
“We are trying to find the missing by mobilizing all our facilities and troops, and informing passing ships and the search and rescue centers of the Omani, United Arab Emirates and Pakistan navies,” Esmail Makkizadeh, deputy head of Iran’s regional maritime agency, was quoted as saying. ISNA.
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