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Thirty residents return home following Swiss landslide
Around thirty residents were able to return to their homes following a landslide from the Birch glacier that destroyed nearby ...
Swiss Alps village largely destroyed after massive glacier collapses: ‘It’s a major catastrophe’
Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and ...
‘Major catastrophe’: Alpine village largely destroyed after a Swiss glacier collapses
Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and ...
A river dammed by a huge Swiss landslide is flowing again. That's a relief to authorities
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
Search suspended for missing man after partial glacier collapse causes landslide that buries 90% of Swiss village
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 ...
Swiss president pledges aid for Alpine villagers left homeless after glacier collapse
Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...
Swiss village buried in glacier collapse
A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...
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Swiss communities on alert after massive landslide
Residents in the Lötschental valley have been asked to prepare for evacuation. It comes after Wednesday's glacier collapse dumped millions of cubic meters of ice ...
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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 in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village. Buildings that weren't buried ...