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Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the mountain village of Blatten, which was wiped out by a devastating glacier collapse last week.
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
Rescuers in the Swiss Alps were searching for at least one person missing after 1.5 million cubic meters of ice, rock and mud ...
Swiss authorities say rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village are preventing emergency services ...
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 ...
The bodies of five skiers have been found on a glacier above the Swiss resort town of Zermatt, authorities said, and another ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...
We have lost our village,” the mayor of Blatten said after the glacier’s explosive collapse covered it in ice, rock and mud. One person is missing.
At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...
Swiss authorities said Friday that they were no longer considering evacuating most residents in the vicinity of a collapsed ...
Swiss authorities say that the bodies of five skiers have been found on a glacier above the Swiss resort town of Zermatt.