The eight missing, who come from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, were hiking in the Val Bondasca region at the time. A picture taken on August 25, 2017, shows a general view of the village of Bondo in the Swiss Alps following a landslide two nights ago. - Deafening bang -"It was terrible," Elisa Nunzi told Blick after witnessing the landslide from her home in a higher-altitude village. The landslide set four million cubic metres (141 million cubic feet) of mud and debris in motion, its relentless mass stretching 500 metres (1,600 feet) across, according to the regional natural hazards office (AWN). Simona Rauch, a Protestant minister at a church in Val Bregaglia, told AFP residents had not expected to be gone so long.

Source: The Nation Bangkok August 25, 2017 14:03 UTC