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A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...

Authorities in southern Switzerland are on high alert as concerns ... burying much of the Alpine village of Blatten under mud and debris. Officials report that 90% of the village has been destroyed.

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities ...

The Swiss village of Blatten was largely destroyed following a glacier collapse on Wednesday afternoon, Swiss broadcaster RTS reported. The collapse of Birch Glacier sent an avalanche of mud ...

A picturesque Swiss village has been nearly entirely destroyed by a collapsing glacier, leaving one person missing amid a deluge of ice, mud and rock. Dramatic before-and-after images show the ...

A catastrophic landslide triggered by the partial collapse of the Birch Glacier buried approximately 90% of Blatten, a small Alpine village in Switzerland's Valais Canton, BBC reported.

ZURICH (Reuters) - A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland this week has sparked fears of flooding in the Alpine ...

Swiss authorities believe that there is a severe flood risk following a mudslide of glacial debris that wiped out the village of Blatten. Rescue workers and the army have been on site searching ...