LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Rescue teams in Slovenia were searching on Sunday for three mountaineers from neighboring Croatia who apparently were swept away in an avalanche, police said.

The three were part of a group of seven mountaineers heading up the Tosc Mountain in northwestern Slovenia, local media reported. When four people in the group decided to take a break earlier on Sunday, the remaining three continued on and were caught in the avalanche, the official Slovenian STA news agency reported.

Rescue official Klemen Belhar told Croatia’s public broadcaster HRT that search efforts have been hampered by rain, snow and risk of more avalanches. Rescue service said they could not use a helicopter because of bad weather.

“Rescue teams are on their way but it (the effort) is very demandi

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