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Residents have told of their destruction after the landslide destroyed most of the villages in Switzerland.
About 90% of the beautiful Blatten village is hit by ice, mud and stone on Wednesday After most of the birch glaciers above the village broke up, causing landslides.
300 inhabitants have been evacuated after the part of the mountain behind the glacier began to be destroyed.
The rescue team and search dog continued to explore the area on Thursday for a 64 -year -old man who was missing after the scanning of the early drone found nothing.
A car was brought in a helicopter near Blatten. Pic: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth
Sheep are taken with a helicopter near Blatten, Switzerland, to a safe place. Pic: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth
When people try to recover, experts also warn the risk of flooding, with a large mound of debris, almost 2 km across, blocking the Lonza River, causing a large lake to swell.
“I don’t want to talk now. I lost everything yesterday. I hope you understand,” said a middle -aged woman from Blatten, when she sat alone in front of a church in the neighboring village of Wiler.
The closest road, which once crossed the valley, now ends suddenly with mud that has swallowed his village.
Martin Henzen, another Blatten resident, said he was still struggling to process what happened.
“Most of them are calm, but they are clearly affected,” he said.
While the preparation has been made, it is “not for this scenario,” Henzen said, referring to the scale of destruction.
Aerial Blatten the day after landslides. PIC: Keystone/AP
Large avalanche with a mixture of ice, stones, snow and water down in the village. Pic: Ap
A car was flown to a safe place by helicopter. Pic: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth
‘Big plug’
Residents have not yet left the forest, with several warnings about the dangers caused by a blocked river.
“Water from the Lonza River cannot flow down the valley because there is a very large plug,” Raphael Majoraz, a geologist, told SRF Swiss announcers, that flooding in downstream villages was possible.
Up to one million cubic meters of water piled up every day because of the debris that drives the river, Christian Huggel, a professor of environment and climate at the University of Zurich, said.
A woman holds a sheep, brought by a helicopter in Wiler, near Blatten. Pic: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth
Rock, mud and ice fell to the village on Wednesday. Pic: Ap
Around 300 villagers were evacuated earlier this month. Pic: Ap
Asked how he felt about the future, Jonas Jeitziner, a local official from a neighbor Wiler, said: “Right now, his surprise is very deep so people cannot think of it.”
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This incident has turned on concerns about the impact of the increase in temperature on alpine permafrost, which has long frozen gravel and large rocks in its place.
Over the years, the Birch glacier has crept up the mountain, pressed by debris that shifts near the top.
