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A 64-year-old man remained missing Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. State Councilor Stéphane Ganzer told Radio Télévision Suisse that 90% of the village was destroyed.

"An unbelievable amount of material thundered down into the valley," the Reuters news agency quotes Matthias Ebener, a spokesperson for local authorities as saying.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

The many forms of climate change.

[–] floofloof 17 points 1 day ago

It's amazing that only one person is known to be missing after that. That's some good disaster preparation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

An unbelievable amount of material thundered down into the valley

Yeah, watch the video if you haven't. That was huge.

And it's not over: The material is positioned such that it might block the river and flood the valley. So more people have been evacuated downstream.