Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has sparked warnings that further evacuations may be needed amid the risk of ...

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes ... moment is that about 90% of the village is covered or destroyed, so it ...

The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley.

A Swiss Alpine village was largely wiped out on Wednesday ... ice and dirt rose up and enveloped the mountains and valley, reminding some of the cloud of an atomic bomb. "What happened is the ...

The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...

SRF said houses were destroyed in the village nestled in the Loetschental valley in southern Switzerland. Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter expressed her solidarity with the local population as ...

One person is missing after the evacuated Swiss village of Blatten was buried by mud and rocks due to a glacier collapse.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village. Buildings that weren't buried were ...

A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland this week has sparked fears of flooding in the Alpine valley, even as some ...

A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland this week has sparked fears of flooding in the Alpine valley, even as some ...

villages several kilometres further along the Lonza Valley to prepare for possible flooding. Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village in southern Switzerland has sparked ...