{"id":28703,"date":"2025-05-29T09:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/partial-glacier-collapse-causes-landslide-that-buries-90-of-swiss-village\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:29:22","slug":"partial-glacier-collapse-causes-landslide-that-buries-90-of-swiss-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/partial-glacier-collapse-causes-landslide-that-buries-90-of-swiss-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial glacier collapse causes landslide that buries 90% of Swiss village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p><em>Geneva<\/em> \u2014 A 64-year-old man remained missing Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before. <\/p>\n<p>The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. State Councilor St\u00e9phane Ganzer told Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Suisse that 90% of the village was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An unbelievable amount of material thundered down into the valley,&#8221; the Reuters news agency quotes Matthias Ebener, a spokesperson for local authorities as saying.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/29\/a4f2241d-15a2-4335-b33b-ca89179812da\/thumbnail\/620x349\/1045cddd302143a3e7af5e1c005957dc\/2025-05-28t222618z-60971736-rc2areadweha-rtrmadp-3-swiss-village.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0#\" alt=\"Glacier collapse buries Swiss village in mud and rocks \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/29\/a4f2241d-15a2-4335-b33b-ca89179812da\/thumbnail\/620x349\/1045cddd302143a3e7af5e1c005957dc\/2025-05-28t222618z-60971736-rc2areadweha-rtrmadp-3-swiss-village.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/29\/a4f2241d-15a2-4335-b33b-ca89179812da\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/5583c53dc645a4c5b725e15a7bbf916d\/2025-05-28t222618z-60971736-rc2areadweha-rtrmadp-3-swiss-village.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Mud and rocks slide down a mountain after a glacier partially collapsed, covering most of the village of Blatten, Switzerland on May 28, 2025, in this screen grab taken from a handout video.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Pomona Media \/ Handout via Reuters<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve lost our village,&#8221; Blatten Mayor Matthias Bellwald told a press conference, according to Reuters. &#8220;The village is under rubble. We will rebuild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/29\/575a17dd-ca22-4b1c-9a6d-2b57448a8994\/thumbnail\/620x348\/39af0db73c6fdfd265384c9d84c9961d\/2025-05-28t212219z-1659689147-rc28reagyiwg-rtrmadp-3-swiss-village.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0#\" alt=\"Mud and rock bury Swiss village after glacier collapse \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/29\/575a17dd-ca22-4b1c-9a6d-2b57448a8994\/thumbnail\/620x348\/39af0db73c6fdfd265384c9d84c9961d\/2025-05-28t212219z-1659689147-rc28reagyiwg-rtrmadp-3-swiss-village.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/29\/575a17dd-ca22-4b1c-9a6d-2b57448a8994\/thumbnail\/1240x696\/8bbcad64dad23bad639e5eaef1b92cc5\/2025-05-28t212219z-1659689147-rc28reagyiwg-rtrmadp-3-swiss-village.jpg?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Mud and rocks cover a village after a glacier collapse onto Blatten, Switzerland, on May 28, 2025, in this screen grab taken from a video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                KEYSTONE-SDA via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Cantonal Police of Valais said that a search and rescue operation was underway for the missing man, whose name wasn&#8217;t made public, and that it involved a drone with a thermal camera.<\/p>\n<p>The regional government said in a statement that a large chunk of the Birch Glacier above the village had broken off, causing the landslide, which also buried the nearby Lonza River bed, raising the possibility of dammed water flows. <\/p>\n<p>Video on social media and Swiss television showed that the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern L\u00f6tschental valley, partially submerged homes and other buildings under a mass of brownish sludge.  <\/p>\n<p>In recent days, authorities had ordered the evacuation of about 300 people, as well as all livestock, from the village amid fears that the 52 million-cubic foot glacier was at risk of collapse. <\/p>\n<p>Swiss glaciologists have repeatedly expressed concerns about a thaw in recent years &#8211; attributed in large part to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">global warming<\/a><\/span> &#8211; that has accelerated the retreat of glaciers in Switzerland. <\/p>\n<p>The landlocked Alpine country has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, and saw 4% of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023. 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