Vienna, Jul 1 (AP) Dozens of people were being evacuated by helicopter in Austria on Tuesday after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the Gschnitztal valley in Tyrol in the southwest of the Alpine country. The Austrian Armed Forces used a Black Hawk helicopter to fly out around 100 people from the village of Gschnitz and three mountain huts higher up. Severe thunderstorms on Monday set off a mudslide, leaving homes covered with water and debris. Roads leading to the homes were no longer accessible. Also Read | Paetongtarn Shinawatra Suspended: Thailand’s Constitutional Court Removes PM From Office Over ‘Breach of Ethics’; Leaked Phone Call With Cambodian Leader To Be Investigated. The Bremerhutte, Innsbruckerhutte and Tribulaunhutte mountain huts were also no longer accessible via hiking trails due to the landslides, Elmar Rizzoli, head of Tyrol’s Centre for Crisis and Disaster Management, told Austria’s public broadcaster ORF. Local fire department commander Lukas Braunhofer told ORF that after one of several mudslides hit the village of Gschnitz around 6 pm on Monday, the Gschnitzbach creek also burst its banks, leading to flooding in the area. Also Read | Donald Trump Issues Deportation Warning for Elon Musk Amid Feud Over ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’, Says Tesla CEO May Need To ‘Close Up Shop and Move Back to South Africa’ in Absence of EV Subsidies. Braunhofer said the mudslides did not appear to have injured anybody, but caused a great deal of damage. Among other things, an open-air museum with a focus on watermills was devastated. While awaiting their evacuation, residents were asked to stay indoors, not to enter underground garages and basements and also to stay away from the dams on creeks. 鈥淲e are monitoring the situation closely and are in constant contact with the emergency organisations,鈥 Rizzoli said. In May, about 300 people had to be evacuated from the Alpine village of Blatten in neighbouring Switzerland just days before a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a mountainside, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating nearly all of Blatten with mud. (AP) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)