(Breitbart)—One person is missing after a chunk of a glacier careened down a mountainside in Switzerland on Wednesday.
The village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley took the brunt of the mudslide. However, residents had already evacuated the area prior to the disaster, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Law enforcement said search and rescue crews are searching for the sole missing person, a 64-year-old man.
Officials said nearly the entire Birch Glacier had collapsed, and “At the bottom of the valley, a huge deposit of ice and rock, several dozen meters thick and approximately two kilometers long, buried most of the village of Blatten. The damage is considerable,” according to People.
Video footage shows the moments the piece of the glacier thundered down the mountainside onto the village below.
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