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Gavin Blackburn

Falling debris forces suspension of search for missing man after landslide buries Swiss village

The search for a missing 64-year-old man has been suspended because of unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a mountainside in Switzerland, burying the village of Glatten.

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with nearly all of the Alpine village with mud that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.

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