A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities ...

The footage of the Birch Glacier's collapse on Wednesday showed a violent surge of ice, rock and mud followed by a dense dust cloud that quickly enveloped the Alpine village of Blatten ...

GENEVA — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that ...

At least one person is missing after the village, Blatten, in the Valais Canton in southern Switzerland, was buried beneath debris from the Birch Glacier, Matthias Ebener, a spokesman for the area ...

"We've lost our village," Blatten Mayor Matthias Bellwald said in the wake of the landslide. "The village is under rubble. We will rebuild." The landslide was triggered after a part of a glacier ...

A massive glacier collapse in Switzerland destroyed the village of Blatten on Wednesday, just days after being evacuated over fears of imminent collapse. Some 90 per cent of the Alpine village ...

From Reuters: A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday, causing a deluge of ice, mud, and rock that buried most of a mountain village that had been evacuated due to the ...

The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley. Although the village had been evacuated some days ago because of fears the ...