Two Japanese women and one Japanese man died after being caught in heavy snow Saturday night on a mountain near China's Great Wall outside Beijing while they were taking part in a trekking tour, local authorities said Monday.
Another Japanese woman and a Chinese man, a guide for a Japanese tourist agency, were rescued, authorities said.
Officials of the Tokyo-based travel agency Amuse-Travel Co., which organized the tour, said the two dead women were Yoko Ogawa, 62, of Tokyo, and Kuniko Watanabe, 68, of Saitama Prefecture. Miyose Watanabe, 59, from Toyama Prefecture, was rescued.