The Swiss police have confirmed that eight people are missing in the town of Bondo, after a landslide and rocks fell on it. The search continues for the missing, among whom are Swiss, Austrian and German citizens.
Dramatic footage shows mud, rocks and debris cascading down the Piz Cengalo mountain in the Swiss Alps pic.twitter.com/GNkTCgwUv7
- AFP news agency (@AFP) August 24, 2017
Thanks to an alarm installed after a large landslide in 2012 in the same area, about a hundred people were evacuated on Wednesday from Bond, a village in the Graubunden region of southeastern Switzerland.
In the landslide of earth and stones, several auxiliary buildings were destroyed.
On Sunday, an avalanche of stones lasting about 20 seconds hit six hikers on a trail near the Swiss lake Gelmersee.
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