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There are also concerns the debris from the glacier could cause the River Lonza flood other villages.A man remains missing on ...
Days after a gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris buried much of the village of Blatten in canton Valais, the danger is ...
A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...
The huge amount of debris nearly covered the village of Blattern and makes the surrounding peaks look smaller, while a gaping ...
The collapse of a massive glacier in southern Switzerland has triggered the risk of flooding from an ice jam, which blocked ...
Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...
A glacier collapse in southern Switzerland led to devastation in the village of Blatten, where debris blocked a river, ...
ZURICH (Reuters) - 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 ...
On Wednesday, the Birch glacier in Switzerland’s southern Valais ... “There is a serious risk of an ice jam that could flood the valley below,” Antoine Jacquod, a military security official ...
A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...
Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier collapse that created a huge pile of debris after destroying a small village.