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Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the Swiss mountain village of Blatten, which ...
The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...
According to the Valais cantonal government ... 2025 The situation in the landslide area of Blatten in southwestern Switzerland remained stable during Monday night. On the Kleine Nesthorn ...
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 ...
A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris ...
Switzerland's president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...
Stephane Ganzer, an official in the canton of Valais where Blatten is located, told Swiss media that about 90% of the village was covered by the landslide. 'it's a major catastrophe that has ...
Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...
The village in the Valais Lötschental was largely buried ... Watch the collapse of the Birch Glacier above Blatten in southern Switzerland on May 28, 2025: The glacier collapse had been preceded ...
Swiss authorities said Friday that they were no longer considering evacuating most residents in the vicinity of a collapsed ...