The Swiss village buried by a glacier collapse – podcast
by Presented by Helen Pidd with Tess McClure; produce from World news | The Guardian on (#6XSMQ)
Tess McClure reports on a landslide in Switzerland that left one person missing and destroyed a village
The Swiss village of Blatten was wiped out in seconds. A glacier collapsed above the village on 28 May, triggering a landslide. The 300 residents had been evacuated a week earlier, but a 64-year-old man who is believed to have stayed is missing.
Tess McClure, the Guardian's commissioning editor for the Age of Extinction, reported on the aftermath.
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