Swiss village wiped out by glacier
發佈日期: 2025-05-31 13:00
TVB News
Aerial footage showed flooded homes and debris scattered around a Swiss village after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a mountainside in the southern Lotschental valley.
The landslide on Wednesday 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. Footage showed houses partially submerged and other buildings under a mass of brownish sludge with debris strewn across the area of Blatten.
In recent days, authorities had ordered the evacuation of about 300 people, as well as all livestock, from the village amid fears that the 1.5 million-cubic meter (52 million-cubic foot) glacier was at risk of collapse.
Swiss glaciologists have repeatedly expressed concerns about a thaw in recent years - attributed in large part to global warming - that has accelerated the retreat of glaciers in Switzerland.
