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Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide - A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...
A large portion of the Birch glacier In Switzerland, he detached himself, causing an ice, debris and mud that fully ...
Switzerland's president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. State Councilor Stéphane Ganzer told ...
Swiss authorities said Friday that they were no longer considering evacuating most residents in the vicinity of a collapsed ...
A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...
The tiny village of Blatten, Switzerland, has been almost entirely destroyed by a massive landslide. Ninety percent of the town is completely destroyed.
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...