Geneva, Switzerland
Reuters
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A huge mass of glaciers in the Swiss Alps broke down on Wednesday afternoon, causing floods of rocks, rocks and rocks, allowing parts of the mountain village to be filled.
One person is currently missing, officials said.
Drone footage broadcast by Swiss National Broadcasting Station SRF showed a vast plain of mud and soil that completely covers the village of Bratten, the river that flows through it, and some of the wooded sides of the surrounding valley.
“An incredible amount of material thundered through the valley,” said Matthias Ebener, a spokesman for the local government in the Valley’s southwest Canton.
One person was missing, Ebener said.
The tile bleeds of the crushed wooden building could be seen on the side of a giant chunk of Earth in drone footage.
After geologists identified the risk of an imminent avalanche of rocks and ice from above, the Bratten buildings and infrastructure, which evacuated May 19, were heavily hit by rock slips, Ebener said.
The SRF said the house was destroyed in a village in the Roatscental Valley in southern Switzerland.
Swiss President Karin Keller Sutter has expressed solidarity with locals as he warned the people of emergency services that were dangerous and urged them to close main roads to the valley.
“It’s terrible to lose your home,” Keller Sutter said in X.
Authorities have been monitoring the slopes above Bratten since ordering residents to leave their homes.
The widely shared video on social media shows a dramatic moment when the glacier partially collapsed, creating a huge cloud that echoing through the village’s outskirts of the village, creating a massive cloud covering parts of the mountain.
