FILE PHOTO: IBU World Biathlon Championships - Women's 4x6 km Relay - Oestersund, Sweden - March 16, 2019. Laura Dahlmeier of Germany competes. TT News Agency/Robert Henriksson via REUTERS/ File Photo
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -German biathlete and double Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier has been seriously injured after being struck by a rockfall while attempting to summit a 6,094-metre peak in northern Pakistan, a provincial government spokesperson and a Pakistani climbing federation said on Tuesday.
The accident occurred on Monday when Dahlmeier was hit by a landslide in Hushe Valley in the northern mountain range in Gilgit-Baltistan province, said spokesperson Faizullah Faraq, adding that bad weather meant a helicopter had been unable to reach the site.
