Ski worker dies in snow clearer

A YOUNG ski worker died yesterday when she was sucked into a snow clearing machine in the French resort of Les Angles.

The horrific accident happened in the early morning and it is thought the woman in her early 20s was lying in snow near a road.

The driver only made the macabre discovery when his plough’s engine started to play up. The unnamed woman was found to be dead at the scene by paramedics.

A fleet of snow-clearing vehicles had been sent out to clear the roads of the Pyrenean resort in the early hours following heavy falls overnight.

Mayor Michel Poudade said there was ‘complete bafflement’ as to what happened. ‘The driver of the machine is in a terrible state, he is not coping well at all,’ he added.

Last year Aleksander OwensThurston, 23, from Surrey, died when he hit a snow machine in Austria.