Man missing after glacier in Switzerland collapses and destroys village
The mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lotschental valley, partially submerged homes and other buildings under a mass of sludge.
By contributor Associated Press Reporter
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A 64-year-old man is missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside.
The landslide sent plumes of dust into the sky and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.
State councilor Stephane Ganzer told Radio Television Suisse that 90% of the village was destroyed.
