A huge section of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken off, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most of a village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a rockslide. Drone footage broadcast by Swiss national broadcaster SRF showed a vast plain of mud and soil completely covering part of the village of Blatten, the river running through it and the wooded sides of the surrounding valley. View image in fullscreen A landslide above Blatten on 18 May had prompted the evacuation order. “We’ve lost our village,” Matthias Bellwald, the mayor of Blatten told a press conference after the slide. SRF said houses were destroyed in the village nestled in the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland.
