GENEVA (AP) — A huge mass of rock and ice tumbled down a mountain in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. Video on social media showed the rumbling mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley. Images from the scene appeared to show several cabins partially submerged. In recent days the authorities had ordered the evacuation ofabout 300 people, as well as all livestock from the village, amid fears that a 1.5 million cubic meter (52 million cubic feet) glacier above the village was at risk of collapse. Local authorities were deploying by helicopter and across the area to assess the damage and whether there have been any casualties, Jonas Jeitziner, a spokesman for the Lötschental crisis center, told The Associated Press by phone. In 2023, residents of the village of Brienz, in eastern Switzerland, were evacuated before ahuge mass of rockslid down a mountainside, stopping just short of the settlement. Brienz was evacuated againlast yearbecause of the threat of a further rockslide.