Glacier Fall 90percentof Swiss village, particular person is lacking

Officials said a large part of a glacier in Swiss Alps broke on Wednesday afternoon, causing a light of snow, mud and rock to bury the part of a mountain village due to the risk of a rock slide earlier this month.

One person is missing, officials said.

The drone footage broadcast by the Swiss National Broadcaster SRF showed a huge ground of mud and soil, which completely covers the part of the blatant village, the river is running through it and the wooden side of the surrounding valley.

“We have lost our village,” Mathyas Belwal, Blaton’s Mayor told a press conference after the slide. “The village is under the debris. We will reconstruct.”

Stephen Ganjar, an officer in Valace’s Canton, where Blaton is located, told Swiss media that about 90 percent of the village was covered by landslides.

“An incredible amount of material was thundered in the valley,” said Mathyas Abenner, a spokesman for local authorities.

One person was missing, said Abbenner. Officials did not give any more details to the person during the press conference.

Officials said millions of cubic meters of rock and soil have fallen as the blaton was first vacated when the part of the mountain began to be uprooted behind the glacier, by warning it could bring down the mass of snow.

A widely shared video on social media showed the dramatic moment when the glacier partially collapsed, creating a huge cloud, covering part of the mountain because rock and debris shook towards the village.

Experts consulted by Reuters said that the temperature increased by climate change was difficult to assess to the extent that the decline had come due to the role of Crumbling Mountains.

Christian Hagal, a professor of environment and climate at the University of Zurich, said, while various factors were playing in blaston, it was known that the warm temperature in the Alps was affected by the local permafrost.

The disadvantage of the permafrost can negatively affect the stability of the rock rock, which is why climate change probably played a role in the Holocaust, Hagal said.

He said that there was no example in the current or last century in Swiss Alps in the limit of damage to Blaton.

In drone footage, the debris of wooden buildings scattered on the flax of the vast mass of the earth can be seen.

Builders and infrastructure in Blaton, whose approximately 300 residents were evacuated on May 19, when geologists identified the risk of an adjacent avalanche of rock and snow from above, defeated by the rock slide, the officials said.

The SRF said the houses were destroyed in the nests of the Nest in the Loetschental Valley, Southern Switzerland.

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sater expressed his solidarity with the local population as emergency services warned people that the area was dangerous and urged them to stay away, which locked the main road in the valley.

“It’s terrible to lose your home,” Keller-Sater said on X.