According to the head of the Valais Natural Hazards Office, the cone of debris from the landslide in Blatten is over 100 ...

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...

A glacier collapsed in the Swiss Alps. It triggered a landslide. The landslide buried much of Blatten village in Valais canton. Residents had already evacuated. One person is missing. Recovery ...

A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...

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 ...

At least one person is missing after the village, Blatten, in the Valais Canton in southern Switzerland, was buried beneath debris from the Birch Glacier, Matthias Ebener, a spokesman for the area ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

A gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris has buried a large part of the village of Blatten in Lötschental in Canton Valais ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.