A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk ...

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

Blatten is located in the Loetschental valley in the canton of Valais. "We've lost our village," Blatten Mayor Matthias Bellwald said at a news conference, per Reuters. "The village is under rubble.

Europe Glacier collapses, burying nearly all of Swiss Alpine village “We have lost our village,” the mayor of Blatten said after the glacier’s explosive collapse covered it in ice, rock and mud.

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk ...

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 risk of a ...