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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 ...
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The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten. A massive ...
Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...
"This region is used to risks that come simply from the fact that what surrounds those villages are really high mountains," ...
A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day ...
Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and ...
A huge mass of rock and ice in the Swiss Alps sent plumes of dust skyward on Wednesday near a village that authorities had ...
Mayor Matthias Bellwald of Blatten used a news conference Wednesday to praise the community “solidarity” in the quick evacuations since Saturday in his village in the southern Lötschental valley.