Swiss Towns Rocked By Flooding, Zermatt Remains Cut Off

ZERMATT, Switzerland – A number of areas all through Switzerland, together with the mountain resort of Zermatt, noticed mass quantities of flooding on Friday, June 21, after a large thunderstorm broke river banks within the space. Additional east, in line with the BBC, three folks went lacking within the city of Misox because the flooding handed by means of, although the physique of one of many three has since been discovered.

Zermatt has been reduce off from the remainder of the world by the flooding, with trains between Visp and Zermatt suspended and the street between Täsch and Zermatt closed. 124 mm (4.88 in) of rain fell within the space all through the storms, most of which fell in only a one hour interval.