Switzerland: and a risk of flooding after glacier landslide in the Alps [Βίντεο]

Switzerland authorities were concerned today about possible floods after the creation of an artificial lake, after a huge glacier, which in the southern part of the country.

The artificial lake created after the detachment of the Birk glacier in the Swiss Alps, is growing time by time, as huge pieces of ice, mud and rocks have cut the flow of the Londza River passing through the Lekedal Valley, raising fears.

“We will try today to appreciate its dimensions,” explained Antoine Zakond, a member of the Civil and Military Protection Service at Vale Canton, according to the Keystone-ATS agency. “There is a high risk of flooding the valley below,” he added.

For precautionary reasons, 16 people were removed on Wednesday night from two villages beneath the affected area.

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🎞️1 Pomona – Flight over the Birch Glacier near the Kleines Nesthorn in Blatten (Lötschental)
🎞️2 Mud and rocks slide down a mountain after the Birch glacier partially collapsed, covering most of the village of Blatten, Switzerland on May 28,…

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According to Rafael Mayoraz, the Cantonian Natural Disaster Management, the rocks and the ice have interrupted the flow of the Londza river into a 2 -kilometer piece. He commented that the accumulated rubble “look like a mountain and of course a small lake has been created, which is becoming increasingly.”

The collapse of the glacier of BIRK was destroyed by almost 90% of the picturesque village of Blaven, while a man is missing, the authorities said.

The detachment of the glacier had been predicted for days, as many rock landslides were observed on the mountain over the village.

The missing person is a 64 -year -old resident of the area who, according to Vale Police, was at the scene at the time of the disaster.

Video posted on YouTube show a huge cloud of ice and rocks rolling from the mountain. The power and speed were so great that ice and rocks continued their course as the opposite slope.

A glacier collapse in southern Switzerland triggered a landslide that destroyed 90% of the village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley.
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The phenomenon was recorded by all the seismological stations of Switzerland.

According to Mayoraz, “3 million cubic meters of rocks suddenly fell on the glacier and dragged him down” in the valley.

The incident has revived concerns about the effects of increasing temperatures on the Alps of the Alps, although environmentalists so far are hesitant to perform the detachment of the glacier to climate change.