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The Swiss village of Blatten was partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley, flooding ...
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
The collapse of the glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. When the first signs of instability started to appear, the town was evacuated.
Videos on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Ltschental valley. Houses and buildings ...
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 ...
Blatten's residents and livestock had already been evacuated amid growing concerns about the ice field's stability ...
A catastrophic landslide triggered by the collapse of Switzerland's Birch Glacier has buried nearly 90% of the Alpine village ...
NEW: 90% of a Swiss village has been buried after a massive chunk of the Birch glacier broke off and crashed down into the ...
Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and ...
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...
With the Swiss army closely monitoring the situation, flooding worsened during the day as vast mounds of debris almost two ...