Two days after a gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris buried much of the village of Blatten in southwestern Switzerland, the danger is not over. There is a risk that the water dammed up by the masses of debris in the Lötschental valley could overflow, according to the authorities. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Three million cubic metres of rock fell on Blatten on Wednesday afternoon at the same time as part of the Birch Glacier. The canton put the total volume of ice and rock deposits on the valley floor at ten million cubic metres. The site on the Kleine Nesthorn in canton Valais, where the landslide began, is also not stable. Further rockfalls and debris flows are therefore feared. Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year, is visiting the disaster area on Friday afternoon. Due to the danger of a possible flood wave from the Lötschental valley, on Thursday night the regional command centre in ...
