TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. - Police have released the name of the 15th person killed by an avalanche in B.C. this winter.
Thirty-year-old Kelly Roy Siemens of the Hythe area of Alberta was killed Saturday while snowmobiling near Tumbler Ridge in northeast B.C.
He was among a party of six snowmobilers in the Babcock Meadows area.
Just the day before, an avalanche in the Monashee Mountains near Valemount, near the Alberta border, buried two snowmobilers, killing a 33-year-old man from Edmonton.
In the worst single incident, eight snowmobilers were killed in late December when hit by slides near Fernie in southeast B.C.
With files from The Canadian Press
