Village Crushed: Townsmen Flee Alps Landslide
Village Crushed: Townsmen Flee Alps Landslide
Disaster is slowly descending on the tiny village of Landal in the Austrian Tyrol. The inhabitants say: "the mountain is running away" as tons of dirt and mud slowly engulf the village of their ancestors. Help has come from all over Europe. Heavy equipment is trying to move the River Ache back into its bed and many of the 600 evacuated inhabitants hope someday to return to the village. A small village of Landal in the Austrian, Tyrol is engulfed by a landslide of mud and rock. A stream flowing down the mountain as a result of the heavy rains. A man standing on a walk-way just watching the menacing water as it formed a water fall. Families carrying their children away from their homes fleeing from the danger of the mud slides. A huge hunk of the mountain is slowly moving down in the raging stream. A father carrying his child in his arms running to safety. A steam shovel removing tons of mud from the aftermath of a land slide. Water pouring down from the mountain in back and around a home. Units of Austrian Pioneer Core hip high in raging water working around the clock trying to save parts of the village. Water invading a house. Pioneer Core rerouting the Aka river back into its channel. Man with a jack-hammer. An explosive set off in hopes of rerouting the river. The aftermath of one of the mud slides and a house standing in the midst of mud.