Dozens of people were presumed dead and over 100 others were injured, most seriously, after a fire ripped through a New Year's Eve party in the resort town of Crans-Montana, police said Thursday.
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.
"Several tens of people" were killed at the bar, Le Constellation, Valais Canton police commander FrΓ©dΓ©ric Gisler said during a news conference.
Swiss police believe around 40 people died, the Italian
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