After Avalanche, Floods Threaten to Hit Swiss Villages: Residents Evacuate

After the devastating fall of the mountain, which destroyed the village of Blatten, the planning for reconstruction begins. However, the danger to the Lötschental valley is not banished – even the search for a missing person had to be interrupted.

After avalanche in Lötschental, Seespiegel sinks, experts monitor the location, evacuation of Gampel and Steg not necessary for the time being.

The slide of a glacier in southern Switzerland left a missing and destroyed in part the small town of Blatten, completely evacuated since last week because of the...

Gigantic rock and ice masses have created a reservoir in the buried village of Blatten, which now threatens to flood the rest of the valley. Residents are preparing for the evacuation.

After the destruction of the Swiss village of Blatten by an avalanche, more villages in the valley are preparing for evacuation.

Now that the Lonza River is blocked by a meter-high wall of ice and rock debris after the collapse of the Birch Glacier and the lake that has formed is growing larger hour by hour, the population of the Swiss villages of Steg and Gampel must prepare for a quick evacuation. The inhabitants are asked to prepare a temporary shelter outside the valley. This is reported by the municipalities of Steg-Hohtenn and Gampel-Brasen in the canton of Valais o…