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Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.
Buildings that weren’t buried were submerged in a lake created by the small Lonza River, whose course was dammed by the mass of material. Authorities worried that water pooling above the mass of ...
Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has ...