Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Seven climbers are dead, four are missing and four injured after an avalanche struck a Himalayan base camp in western Nepal on Monday morning, officials said.
A cyclone had produced heavy snowfall in the mountainous region.
The incident occurred at 9 a.m. local time, the BBC reported.
Fifteen people were caught in the avalanche at the base camp of Yalung Ri peak at 16,000 feet, Gyan Kumar Mahato, the chief of police in Dolakha district, said in a report by The New York Times.
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