Seven members of the same family, several of them children, were killed and four others injured early on Saturday when an avalanche crashed down on their house in eastern Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported.
The accident happened in the small village of Somkaya in Agri province, which has a reputation for hard winters.
Soldiers from a nearby barracks were able to pull out the four survivors from under the snow and take them to hospital.
Eastern Turkey is currently in the grips of a cold snap and current weather conditions are ideal for avalanche occurrences.
Three people were killed last week in an avalanche in Cakirpinar in the southeast of the country.
Seven killed, four hurt, in avalanche in eastern Turkey
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