GAP, France – A hiker has discovered the bodies of six mountain climbers in France’s Hautes-Alpes region, the apparent victims of an accident a day earlier. Mountain police based in Briancon said the bodies were discovered Sunday in a steep corridor at 2,700 meters (8,858 feet) a day after the climbers left an overnight Alpine refuge. Police said the group apparently was headed, on two ropes, for a point at 3,614 meters (11,857 feet) in the Massif des Ecrins. The mayor’s office in the village of Villar-d’Arene said a helicopter transported the bodies to the town hall for identification. Details surrounding the deaths were not immediately available. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook

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(AP) – Mexico’s Attorney General Marisela Morales steps away from a podium after holding a news conference in Mexico City, Tuesday June 7, 2011. Morales announced that the bodies found in unmarked graves in the northern states of Durango and Tamaulipas have increased to 429. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

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(Reuters) – Jean-Baptiste Audousset (L), President of the AF447 victims association, and Gwenola, whose fiance was among the victims of the crash of an Air France flight AF447, attend a news conference at the French aviation investigation body BEA in Le Bourget, northern Paris, April 4, 2011. Parts of the wreckage of an Air France plane found in the Atlantic at the weekend contain the bodies of some of the passengers who died when the aircraft crashed off Brazil in 2009, the French government said on Monday. Air France flight 447, an Airbus 330-203 plane, plunged into the ocean en route from Rio to Paris, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board and a long search has so far failed to find flight recorders that could give clues to the cause of the accident. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE – Tags: POLITICS DISASTER TRANSPORT)

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