3 d. ago 'Distraught' Pope meets Italian relatives of Swiss fire victims and tells them 'God has not abandoned you'

Pope Leo XIV has met the Italian families of the victims of the Swiss bar fire on New Year's Eve, telling them that God has not abandoned them. 

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3 d. ago Pope seeks to console families of young Italian victims of New Year's Swiss Alps bar fire

Pope Leo XIV has consoled families of Italian teenagers killed or injured in the Swiss bar fire at a New Year's party

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2 w. ago Swiss ski resort fire latest as police provide first details on victims

Swiss authorities have identified the first four victims of the Alpine bar fire that killed 40

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2 w. ago In their words: Survivors and others talk about fatal Swiss Alpine bar fire

In the aftermath of a fire inside a Swiss Alpine bar that killed 40 people celebrating the new year, survivors, friends and family members, the region’s top authorities and even Pope Leo have spoken to the public in remarks in French, Italian, German and English, reflecting the tradition of Swiss multilingualism

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2 w. ago Everything we know so far after at least 40 die in Swiss Alpine bar horror

Around 40 people died and 115 were injured when fire swept through the Le Constellation bar in the popular Alpine ski resort shortly after midnight on New Year's Day

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2 w. ago One of Switzerland's worst tragedies left about 40 people dead after a fire in an Alpine resort bar

A New Year’s party at a Swiss Alpine bar turned into a tragedy after about 40 people died in a fire and another roughly 115 were injured, mostly seriously

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2 w. ago Le Constellation bar fire in Switzerland: what we know so far

Investigators say no indication of terrorism or arson after 40 people die and 115 are injured in blazeSwitzerland ski resort fire – latest updatesDozens of people are presumed dead and about 115 injured, many of them seriously, after a fire at a bar in the Swiss Alps during a new year celebration at a luxury ski resort.The blaze ripped through the packed bar, Le Constellation, early on Thursday in Crans-Montana, one of the top-ranked ski destinations in Europe, which lies about 25 miles (40km) north-west of Zermatt. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Here's what to know about a deadly fire at a Swiss Alpine bar's New Year celebration

Swiss investigators are probing what caused a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left dozens of people presumed dead and another 100 injured during a New Year’s celebration

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2 w. ago Several dead and injured in explosion at Swiss ski resort town Crans

Police say explosion ripped through a bar called La Constellation in the luxury Alpine ski resort town Several people have been killed and others injured when an explosion ripped through a bar in the luxury Alpine ski resort town of Crans-Montana, Swiss police said early on Thursday.“There has been an explosion of unknown origin,” Gaetan Lathion, a police spokesperson in Wallis canton in southwestern Switzerland, told AFP. “There are several injured, and several dead.” Continue reading...

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