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The residents of two hamlets in Blatten, Switzerland, were able to visit their homes following a landslide that devasted the 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 mountainside the day before.
The landslide in Blatten VS and the resulting floods caused damage totalling CHF 320 million. Around CHF 260 million of this ...
Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...
Switzerland ranked the world's most competitive country, glacier collapse to cost 320 million francs and more news in our ...
Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide ...
GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village ... as well as livestock, from Blatten. Switzerland's president said on Friday that the government was ...
The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 A 64-year-old man went missing when the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed after a glacier ...
On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, a large portion of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland partially collapsed and released a chunk of ice that set off an enormous landslide, largely burying the village of ...
A devastating natural disaster has struck the Swiss alpine village of Blatten after a massive section of the Birch glacier broke away, triggering a destructive avalanche that tore through the ...
GENEVA, Switzerland — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that ...
GENEVA — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried ... of a lake by the last houses of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Saturday, May 31, 2025. Credit: AP/Cyril Zingaro ...