Girl, 5, dies in ski nightmare

A 5-year-old British girl was killed during a skiing lesson in the French alps when another skier slammed into her “at high speed,” according to officials who charged the man with manslaughter.

The girl, identified only as Ophélie, was getting a lesson on the beginners’ slope in Flaine on Saturday morning, prosecutor Karline Bouisset told Sky News, when she “was very violently hit by the skier arriving at high speed who tried in vain to avoid her.”

The skier, a firefighter administered first aid, but Ophélie did not regain consciousness and was pronounced dead on the way to a hospital.