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A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

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The latest news on Switzerland. On Wednesday, a powerful landslide triggered by a glacier collapse has engulfed nearly all of the Swiss alpine village of Blatten, leaving one person unaccounted for, ...