2 w. ago Flooding fears after glacier collapse buries picturesque Swiss village under mud and rock

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month

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2 w. ago One person missing after Glacier collapse buries parts of Swiss village under mud and rock

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month

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2 w. ago Glacier collapse buries parts of Swiss village under mud and rock

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month

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2 w. ago Rock slide hits Swiss Alpine village that authorities had ordered evacuated

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps, sending plumes of dust skyward near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution

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3 w. ago The village that faces obliteration any moment: Swiss mountain hamlet is evacuated amid warnings it will be crushed under landslide of five million cubic meters of rock within hours

Blatten, a village of around 300 people in the Loetschental valley, southern Switzerland, faces being wiped out after experts predicted an imminent landslide.

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3 w. ago As a landslide threatens an Alpine village, Swiss authorities expand the evacuation order

Swiss authorities have expanded the evacuation of an Alpine village threatened by a possible landslide, ordering most of its people to leave

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3 w. ago A Swiss village is evacuated because of a threat of a mudslide

Swiss authorities have evacuated around 100 people from their homes after a mudslide threatened their Alpine village of Blatten in the Lötschental Valley

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