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Glacier collapses, burying nearly all of Swiss Alpine village

The Washington Post · last updated

For days, the inhabitants of Blatten, a village in the Swiss Alps, had been warned that an unstable glacier high above their homes could collapse.

On Wednesday afternoon, the glacier broke up under the weight of overlying rocks, sending some 3 million cubic meters of ice, rock and mud toward their homes.

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