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Swiss glacier collapse partially destroys village of Blatten

Thorkil Rothe
May 29, 2025

One person is missing after a glacier collapsed in the Swiss Alps, burying the village of Blatten. Experts had been monitoring the situation for weeks, as chunks broke off the side of the mountain piling 9 million tons of debris on the glacier below.

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