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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly

Huge landslide misses Swiss mountain village of Brienz ‘by a hair’

Brienz landslide
The area had been declared a danger zone of the highest level possible, forcing the closure of two roads and a train line. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/AFP/Getty

A large rockfall has narrowly missed a Swiss mountain village whose inhabitants were evacuated last month over fears of a landslide.

The bulk of the rock, which geologists had warned was in danger of falling directly onto the village of Brienz, crashed to the ground on Thursday night, authorities in the Albula community in the canton of Graubünden said on Twitter.

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