Méribel (France) - Two people have lost their lives in a plane crash in the south of France.

A small plane carrying two tourists (26, 58) crashed into the roof of a wooden hut in the Méribel ski resort on Tuesday afternoon, as reported by the French newspaper Le Parisien.

Both occupants died at the scene of the accident as a result of the crash.

The aircraft had previously collided in mid-air with a paraglider in which two people were also flying over the wintry landscape on the French-Italian border.

Both so-called "paragliders" also crashed, but remained unharmed. Images show how their paraglider landed in a treetop.

There were no people in the house into which the plane crashed at the time. Pictures show the plane with the propeller hanging in the roof. Only the tail is still sticking out.