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A river dammed by a huge Swiss landslide is flowing again. That's a relief to authorities

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A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday .

Buildings that weren't buried were submerged in a lake created by the small Lonza River , whose course was dammed by the mass of material.

Authorities had ordered the evacuation of about 300 people, as well as livestock, from Blatten .

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