CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland – A 34-year-old Frenchman whose job was to check the safety of ski slopes died overnight after being injured in an avalanche at a popular Swiss Alps ski resort, police said Wednesday.

The man was one of four injured people who were rescued after being swept away Tuesday afternoon by an avalanche that hit a slope on Plaine Morte, a glacier near the town of Crans-Montana.

“Unfortunately, overnight one of the four injured people died,” said Steve Leger, a spokesman for the Valais canton police department.

Leger said 43 people reached out, worried that their friends or family had been hit by the avalanche, but “we systematically verified – found, located – these people and rule them out of danger.”

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