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German Olympic biathlete Laura Dahlmeier was struck by falling rocks while scaling Laila Peak in Pakistan on Wednesday. Authorities have abandoned efforts to recover the body of German Olympic biathlete Laura Dahlmeier, who died in a mountaineering accident in Pakistan this week. Dahlmeier was confirmed dead on Wednesday, having been hit by falling rocks while climbing at an altitude of …

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Rescuers had hoped to find the double Olympic gold medallist on the 6,096-metre (20,000-foot) Laila Peak in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains. German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died on a mountain in northern Pakistan after a climbing accident at a remote site that rescuers struggled to reach because of bad weather, a local government spokesman has said. Dahlmeier, an Olympic gold …

German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier, who captured two gold medals at the 2018 Olympics, died in mountaineering accident in remote range of Pakistan, officials said Wednesday. The 31-year-old Dahlmeier was going up Laila Peak in the Karakoram mountain range at about noon local time Monday when she was struck by falling rocks, according to statements by her team and Alpine …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s polarizing vaccine chief is leaving the agency after a brief tenure that drew the ire of biotech executives, patient groups and conservative allies of President Donald Trump. Dr. Vinay Prasad “did not want to be a distraction” and was stepping down from his role as the FDA’s top vaccine regulator “to spend …

Olympic and world champion in biathlon Laura Dahlmeier has passed away at the age of 31, according to her management company. The German athlete was on a trip in the Karakoram mountains in Pakistan when she suffered severe injuries in an accident. An experienced and certified mountaineer, Dahlmeier was caught in a rockfall around noon on 28 July at an …

Rescuers are hoping to locate the double Olympic gold medallist on the 6,096-metre Laila Peak in the Karakoram Mountains. A team of foreign climbers were on Wednesday due to launch a rescue mission for the two-time Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier, days after the German athlete was seriously injured by a rockfall on a Pakistani mountain. The accident happened about …