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Mother sees family plunge to deaths

Updated on 24 July 2008

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A woman saw her husband and three children fall to their deaths while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak, Italian rescuers said.

The 56-year-old man, who was roped to his son and two daughters, plunged 1,600ft down a slope of rock, ice and snow as their mother watched from below, said Oscar Tajola, head of the mountain rescue corps in the nearby town of Courmayeur.

"We had to take her to hospital because she was in shock," Mr Tajola said by telephone. "We think one of them slipped and pulled the others down."

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