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Three climbers, including a foreign national, have died and eight others are missing after an avalanche struck a climbing expedition on a Himalayan peak in Nepal, police confirmed on Monday. The incident occurred on Yalung Ri Himal mountain, which rises to 5,630 metres (18,470 feet) in the Dolakha district, northeast of Kathmandu.