Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

The partial collapse of a glacier has destroyed 90% of the village of Blatten, in the Swiss Alps, according to officials. A deluge of mud, rock and ice hit the village on Wednesday.

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

A collapse of the Birch Glacier in the Swiss Alps has buried nearly 90% of the picturesque village of Blatten under an ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

A huge mass of rock and ice in the Swiss Alps sent plumes of dust skyward on Wednesday near a village that authorities had ...

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

A huge mass of rock and ice in the Swiss Alps sent plumes of dust skyward on Wednesday near a village that authorities had ...

Swiss authorities evacuated around 300 villagers and livestock, including a cow airlifted by helicopter, from Blatten due to the threat of a potential landslide in the Lotschental valley.

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Swiss authorities added livestock to the list of evacuees along with about 300 people moved out of a village threatened by a possible landslide from an Alpine mountainside overhead. One puzzled ...