Swiss Alpine bar fire leaves around 40 people dead and 115 injured as investigations continue

About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a new year celebration at a bar in a Swiss Alpine resort, police said.

Authorities did not immediately have an exact count of the deceased.

The Crans-Montana resort is best known as an international ski and golf venue, and overnight, its crowded Le Constellation bar morphed from a scene of revelry into the site of potentially one of Switzerland’s worst tragedies.

The country will hold five days of mourning.

Valais Canton police commander Frederic Gisler said during a news conference that work was under way to identify the victims and inform their families, adding that the community was “devastated”.

Thirteen of the wounded were Italian citizens, and another six Italians were unaccounted for, Italy’s ambassador to Switzerland, Gian Lorenzo Cornado, told state-run RAI television.

Beatrice Pilloud, Valais Canton attorney general, said it was too early to determine the cause of the fire, which broke out less than two hours after midnight on Thursday. Experts had not yet been able to go inside the wreckage.

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