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Villagers lost their entire livelihood within minutes. One former resident lost their wooden family house built in 1654.
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
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Residents struggled to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their picturesque ...
A massive glacier in southern Switzerland collapsed on Wednesday, with the debris burying a village and blocking a river, ...
Around 300 people live in Blatten, which is located in southern Switzerland's Loetschental valley. Read more at ...
Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...
Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...
A massive glacier collapse overwhelmed the Swiss village of Blatten, destroying most structures and leaving a 64-year-old man ...
Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has ...
With the Swiss army closely monitoring the situation, flooding worsened during the day as vast mounds of debris almost two ...