The village of Bondo in the Val Bregaglia region of Graubünden is once more under threat of rockfalls just a few months after residents began to return home following a huge landslide that hit the village in August.
Around 65 residents of Bondo, the Graubünden village that was hit by a major landslide in August, were finally able to return to their homes on Saturday, nearly two months after the disaster.
Swiss Solidarity has received more than five million francs in donations in aid of the Graubünden village of Bondo and surroundings, which was devastated by a landslide in August.
The Val Bregaglia in the canton of Graubünden is once again accessible by car 24/7 as the road reopens a month after it was cut off by one of the biggest landslides in Switzerland’s history.
The state-of-the-art radar system that enabled experts to predict the collapse of the Trift glacier on Sunday and evacuate residents in advance was installed just a few days earlier, Swiss media reported on Monday.
Local dairy farmers in the landslide-hit Val Bregaglia had a victory against the elements on Friday when they managed to rescue 1.2 tons of cheese from a storeroom just hours before the building filled up with mud and debris.
Another major landslide sent rocks and mud towards the beleaguered village of Bondo in the canton of Graubünden on Thursday night, village authorities said.
The inhabitants of the village of Bondo, hit by a massive landslide last week, have been told that reconstructing the village could take years, Swiss media have reported.
Police in Graubünden are investigating whether hikers in the area that was hit by a huge landslide last week were given sufficient warning about the risks.
Search teams on Friday morning resumed looking for the eight people still missing after the massive landslide that swept away a mountainside in Graubünden on Wednesday.
Eight people, including German, Austrian and Swiss citizens, are missing following a landslide that forced the evacuation of several small villages in southeastern Switzerland on Wednesday, police said on Thursday.
