Huge landslide misses Swiss mountain village of Brienz ‘ by a hair’

Rockfall buries access road but stops just in front of hamlet, which had been evacuated in anticipation

A large rockfall has narrowly missed a Swiss mountain village whose inhabitants were evacuated last month over fears of a landslide.

The bulk of the rock, which geologists had warned was in danger of falling directly onto the village of Brienz, crashed to the ground on Thursday night, authorities in the Albula community in the canton of Graubünden said on Twitter.