Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has ...

Days after a gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris buried much of the village of Blatten in canton Valais, the danger is ...

The huge amount of debris nearly covered the village of Blattern and makes the surrounding peaks look smaller, while a gaping ...

Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...

A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...

On Wednesday the Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais ... "There is a serious risk of an ice jam that could flood the valley below," Antoine Jacquod, a military security official ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland this week has sparked fears of flooding in the Alpine ...

Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier collapse that created a huge pile of debris after destroying a small village.