Active in landslide-hit Blatten since June 27, the Swiss army will be leaving the area on Monday evening. Most of the debris floating on Lake Blatten has been removed. On the afternoon of May 28, part of the Birch glacier above Blatten broke off. Millions of cubic metres of rubble, ice and water broke away, burying the small village in the Upper Valais region in less than a minute. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Initially, the army intervened on the basis of the ordinance on disaster relief and continued its mission at the request of the Blatten municipal authorities. In step with the rain Since the end of June, the army has been carrying out the tasks requested by the municipality: clearing the lake of driftwood and recovered parts of houses (roofs, sections of barns blown away by the landslide), as well as sorting and preparing the materials removed from the water for processing. "With a current depth of around 40 cm, the lake no longer allows us to ...
