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CHAMONIX, France — An avalanche swept over a group of foreign climbers in the French Alps on Thursday, killing at least nine people — with the dead believed to include three Britons — in the deadliest such disaster in the region in a decade.

The measures were proposed after eight people died at the weekend, seven in the Italian Alps and an eighth in the Appenines range along the country’s central spine.