The approximately 30 residents are not allowed to leave their houses for the time being, as the Glarus Süd community wrote on Friday afternoon. A new evacuation is being considered. Last week, 64 people were evacuated from the same area due to the impact of last summer’s devastating landslides.
The debris flows occurred at 6.20am on Friday morning. According to the community, the emergency services were already busy counteracting the consequences of the heavy rain at 5am. In the afternoon, the emergency services were still working to bring the situation under control.
At the end of August, two landslides in Schwanden destroyed dozens of buildings. Just last week it became clear that 40 of those affected would never be able to return to their homes. The buildings are even supposed to be demolished.
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Part of a Swiss village deemed inhabitable due to landslides
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The area destroyed by two landslides at the end of August in Schwanden will never be habitable again.
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Residents of evacuated Swiss village still cannot return home
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The situation in the area affected by the landslide is "very critical and unstable", the municipality of South Glarus announced on Friday.
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