ALMATY, March 17 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and two others were injured in an avalanche in the mountains near Almaty, local media reported on Monday.

In the vast, central territory of Kazakhstan, where the landscape is dominated by flat and boundless steppe, the Bektau Mountains rise suddenly, as if from nowhere. The distant peaks appear volcanic ...

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