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This {photograph} reveals the remaining buildings of the village of Blatten, within the Swiss Alps, buried by a landslide, on Could 29, 2025. Blatten residents had been evacuated final week after a number of smaller landslides, however one individual stays lacking. Rising floodwater from the blocked Lonza river is now inundating the few surviving buildings and threatening downstream villages.

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This archive picture from 2020 reveals the village of Blatten because it appeared earlier than the landslide, within the Canton of Valais, Switzerland.

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Mud and rocks slide down a mountain after a glacier partially collapsed, burying a lot of the village of Blatten, on Could 28, 2025, on this display seize taken from a handout video.

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An aerial view reveals the destruction of Blatten, Switzerland, on Could 29, 2025, someday after the landslide.

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Particles from a crumbling glacier that partially collapsed and tumbled onto the village of Blatten, seen on Could 29, 2025.

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This {photograph} taken from the close by village of Ferden reveals a part of the landslide on Could 29, 2025.

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A helicopter flies above the landslide space within the Lötschental Valley on Could 29, 2025.

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A helicopter drops tools in Ried, subsequent to mess from the landslide, on Could 29, 2025.

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A view of the landslide, seen from the close by village of Ferden on Could 29, 2025.

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Mud swirls above a part of a collapsed glacier on the mountainside above the village of Blatten on Could 29, 2025.

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Floodwater rises in what stays of the village of Blatten, after the landslide blocked the river Lonza, seen on Could 29, 2025.

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A automotive is carried by a helicopter out of Blatten on Could 29, 2025.

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A number of sheep are airlifted out of Blatten on Could 29, 2025.

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This {photograph} taken above Wiler reveals the Bietschhorn mountain within the Swiss Alps after a part of the large Birch Glacier had collapsed the day earlier than and destroyed the small village of Blatten, on Could 29, 2025.

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The remaining buildings of the village of Blatten, after surviving the landslide, are being slowly swallowed by rising floodwater from the river Lonza, which was blocked by the particles.