LYON: A French father and son, as well as his half-brother and their guide died Monday in the French Alps after being swept away by a giant avalanche while snowboarding in the popular resort of Tignes, officials said.

The accident, at an altitude of 2,100 metres (6,900 feet), was the deadliest in the French Alps since the start of the winter and came in the middle of France's high season school-break ski holidays.

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