An avalanche triggered by snowmobilers swept away two people, killing one, Washington officials reported. The avalanche took place at Harts Pass on Friday, Feb. 28, the Northwest Avalanche Center said in a preliminary report. Two snowmobilers were caught in the slab avalanche, which buried and killed one of them, the center said.

Eight road construction workers died after becoming trapped under an avalanche in northern India, the Indian Army said on Sunday. Rescuers operating in several feet of snow evacuated 46 other workers. The workers were buried by the snow early on Friday in the village of Mana, in the state of Uttarakhand, as the avalanche hit their camp site.

The Indian army says at least 4 workers died after an avalanche swept away a large construction crew working on a highway near India’s mountainous border with Tibet.