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Bloomberg | | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz
Switzerland is on alert after heavy rainfall in recent days caused widespread damage, including a landslide that buried part of a village in the country’s southeast.
The Swiss Federal Meteorological Office said on its website that flooding remained a risk. Public broadcaster SRF said further landslides were possible as overly saturated soils could not properly absorb more rain.
Videos and pictures on local media showed swollen rivers, collapsed motorways and debris in parts of the Misox valley in the canton of Graubünden. The rains have temporarily closed routes to Zermatt, the popular tourist town near the Matterhorn – leaving it cut off from the rest of the country. Train services resumed on Saturday evening, according to the Matterhorn-Gotthard Bahn service.
In a post on X, president Viola Amherd described the loss as “shocking.”
Swiss army personnel were deployed to search for the missing and evacuate others.
The floods come just weeks after parts of neighbouring Germany were inundated by persistent rain, disrupting rail services and shipping on the key Rhine and Danube shipping routes.
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