By Robin Millard, AFP
Photo: AFP / MAXIME SCHMID
Hundreds gathered in silence in the freezing night in Crans-Montana, laying flowers and lighting candles to remember those killed and injured in a horrific blaze as they celebrated the New Year.
Around 40 people died and more than 100 were injured in the blaze that ripped through the crowded Le Constellation bar around 1.30am on New Year's Day (local time).
The atmosphere among those who came to mourn the tragedy was deathly quiet.
Many of those who stood, motionless, overlooking the scene of the tragedy, knew people who remain unaccounted for, or were badly
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