The village of Blatten, Switzerland, was almost entirely wiped out by a landslide resulting from glacier collapse on Wednesday. The residents and most livestock had already been evacuated, but at ...

GENEVA, May 28 (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 ...

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, a large portion of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland partially collapsed and released a chunk of ice that set off an enormous landslide, largely burying the village of ...

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 of a ...

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GENEVA, Switzerland - A large section of the mountain village of Blatten in southern Switzerland was buried under an avalanche of ice, mud and rocks after a massive glacier gave way on Wednesday.

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Mud and rocks slide down a mountain after a glacier partially collapsed covering most of the village of Blatten, Switzerland on May 28 in this screen grab taken from a handout video from Pomona Media.