At least 10 trained climbers were killed Tuesday after they were swept away by an avalanche in the Himalayas in northern India, the CBC website reported, noting that rescuers are looking for 11 more missing, and Uttarakhand Police Chief Ashok Kumar said a group of 29 On Tuesday morning, an avalanche descended on a mountain peak located in the Gangotri mountain range of the Garhwal mountains in the Himalayas.

Kumar explained that all the missing are being trained at the mountaineering institute, but far from the place of the avalanche.

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said he was “deeply saddened” by the loss of life in the avalanche, and Singh tweeted, “My condolences to the families of the victims who lost their loved ones.” Avalanches are frequent in the mountainous regions of Uttarakhand. Last year, a glacier eruption in the state caused flash flooding that killed more than 200 people.