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The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
Swiss authorities say rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village are preventing emergency services ...
A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury ...
Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the Swiss mountain village of Blatten, which ...
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 ...
A 64-year-old man is missing after the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed by a 'gigantic landslide' following a ...
The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...
At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...
Swiss authorities say that the bodies of five skiers have been found on a glacier above the Swiss resort town of Zermatt.
Rescuers in the Swiss Alps were searching for at least one person missing after 1.5 million cubic meters of ice, rock and mud ...