Swiss authorities have confirmed that at least 40 people have died and 115 others have been injured in a fire that ripped through a bar in the resort town of Crans-Montana in Switzerland on Thursday.
“Around 40 people have died and 115 are injured, many severely,” Frédéric Gisler, police commander for canton Valais, told reporters.
The priority over the coming days is to identify the people who have died “so that their bodies can be returned rapidly” to their families, he said.
The incident occurred at approximately 1:30 AM (local time) while New Year’s celebrations were in progress. According to eyewitnesses near the site of the incident, pyrotechnics may have been the trigger for the massive blaze in the bar.
The attorney general said many witnesses had been interviewed and telephones which were found will be analysed. The forensic institute in Zurich has already been given a mandate to carry out an investigation to determine the cause of the fire, she said. But authorities admit that the identifications of the injured and those killed is going to take time.
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