At least seven people, including foreign climbers, were killed and four others injured on Monday when an avalanche struck the Yalung Ri peak in northeastern Nepal.

Nepal-based newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported that four more people are missing, adding that the avalanche swept through the base camp of the 5,630-metre peak.

Yalung Ri is located in the Rolwaling Valley of Bagmati province’s Dolakha district.

According to District Police Office Deputy Superintendent Gyan Kumar Mahato, the deceased include three Americans, one Canadian, one Italian, and two Nepali nationals.

Meanwhile, two Italian climbers have gone missing while scaling a remote peak, tourism officials said Monday, after Cyclone Montha disrupted weather in the region.

The climbers, Stefano Farronato and Alessandro Cap

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