Mitholz or Blausee-Mitholz is a village in Kandergrund municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, with 170 inhabitants as of 2020.[1][2] Blausee-Mitholz is a station on the Lötschberg railway line. A munitions storage explosion in 1947 destroyed the village and killed nine people. A safety study commissioned in 2018 found that the site still contained munitions and was unsafe, and in 2020 the government announced that the village must be temporarily abandoned in 2030 for a clean-up that is projected to last 10 years.
- ^ David Williams, "An entire Swiss village must evacuate due to a World War II ammo dump. The cleanup could take 10 years", CNN, 28 February 2020.
- ^ "Mitholz: Life in the shadow of an Alpine ticking time bomb", Swissinfo, 30 October 2020.