Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide

The Independent

The Independent

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For weeks the weight had sat above the village, nine million tonnes of rock precariously resting on an ancient slab of ice.
Guardian
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On Wednesday, dramatic footage of a catastrophic glacier collapse surfaced on social media that buried nearly 90 per cent of Blatten, a small Alpine village with a population of 300.
India Times
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Water that had accumulated behind the collapsed glacier has began to flow downstream, alleviating some fears.
Deutsche Welle
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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.
The Gazette

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