A huge piece of glacier torpedoed down a Swiss mountainside Wednesday and crashed into an Alpine village, destroying 90% of the town.

According to authorities in Switzerland, a 64-year-old man remains missing after the disaster.

Blatten landslide

What we know:

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge .

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A large chunk of the Birch Glacier above the village had broken off, causing the landslide, which also buried the nearby Lonza River bed, raising the possibility of dammed water flows.

The village of about 300 people had been evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. Li

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