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The Swiss village of Blatten was partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley, flooding ...
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...
The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...
A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings ...
Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...
Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...
Blatten's residents and livestock had already been evacuated amid growing concerns about the ice field's stability ...
A glacier in the Swiss Alps collapsed on May 28, sending ice, mud and rock down toward the village of Blatten, burying it in ...