19 m. ago Nightclub owners who renovated bar themselves could face manslaughter charges after ‘sparklers caused fire killing 40’

MANSLAUGHTER charges could be handed down to the owners of the Swiss ski resort nightclub after a deadly inferno killed 40 people trapped inside. The married couple who bought the venue in 2015 turned it from a rundown café into a party hotspot for the après-ski crowd at Crans-Montana. Jacques Moretti, 49, did most of...

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4 h. ago Switzerland fire latest: Families of missing teenagers plead for information as likely cause of deadly blaze identified

Swiss Police have confirmed around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a popular Swiss ski resort

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6 h. ago Swiss ski resort fire: How New Year celebrations turned to tragedy as sparklers on bottles likely cause of blaze

40 people killed and 119 others injured in blaze that tore through a popular Alpine bar as revellers rang in the New Year

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7 h. ago Swiss ski resort fire: sparklers held too close to ceiling may have caused disaster, investigators say

About 40 people died in Crans-Montana bar fire, with experts saying it could take days to identify victimsSwitzerland resort fire – latest updatesInvestigators believe fountain sparklers mounted on champagne bottles and held too close to the ceiling sparked the deadly fire that tore through a crowded bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, killing about 40 people and injuring more than 100.“Everything suggests the fire started from the burning candles or ‘Bengal lights’ that had been attached to champagne bottles,” the prosecutor Béatrice Pilloud said on Friday. “These went too close to the ceiling.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Sparklers held near ceiling started Swiss ski resort fire, investigators believe

Footage and witness statements show blaze that killed about 40 was ‘very rapid’, prosecutor saysInvestigators believe fountain sparklers mounted on champagne bottles and held too close to the ceiling sparked the deadly fire that tore through a crowded bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, killing about 40 people and injuring more than 100.“Everything suggests the fire started from the burning candles or ‘Bengal lights’ that had been attached to champagne bottles,” the prosecutor Béatrice Pilloud said on Friday. “These went too close to the ceiling.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Sparkler candles on champagne bottles revealed as likely cause of Swiss ski resort fire that killed 40

Dramatic footage shows ‘flares’ on champagne bottles catching fire on the bar’s ceiling

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9 h. ago Switzerland fire latest: Sparkler candles on champagne bottles revealed as likely cause of deadly blaze

Swiss Police have confirmed around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a popular Swiss ski resort

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11 h. ago Faces of the missing: Families plead for information about missing loved ones, many of them children, following Swiss nightclub blaze that left 47 dead

New Year's Eve celebrations turned into a nightmare when Le Constellation bar in the ski resort town of Crans-Montana went up in flames,

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12 h. ago Horrific scenes in ski resort bar recounted by witnesses who saw 'people burning'

About 40 people were killed and around 115 injured in a blaze that broke out inside the bar at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland on New Year's Eve, one of the worst tragedies in the country's history

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12 h. ago Tragic golf prodigy, 17, killed in Swiss ski resort fire pictured with Rory McIlroy

Emanuele Galeppini was the first victim to be named after a fire at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland left as many as 40 people dead and more than 100 injured

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15 h. ago Survivor escaped deadly Swiss resort bar fire ‘in frenzy’ as it was engulfed by blaze

A survivor who escaped the deadly fire at a Swiss ski resort bar during New Year’s Eve celebrations has recalled the moment he saw party-goers trying to flee “in a frenzy”.

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15 h. ago Switzerland resort fire live: first victim named, as new video shows attempts to extinguish bar ceiling fire

Fire killed about 40 people who were celebrating at a New Year’s Eve party in the ski resort of Crans-Montana at the town’s Le Constellation barHundreds of mourners gathered in silence in the freezing night in Crans-Montana on Thursday evening, laying flowers and lighting candles to remember those killed in a blaze as they celebrated the new year.Our picture desk has created this gallery with some of the photographs of those paying tribute: Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Switzerland fire latest: First victim of tragedy named as teenage golfer after 40 killed in Crans

Swiss Police have confirmed around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a popular Swiss ski resort

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16 h. ago BBC Breakfast's Charlie Stayt shares sad update on deaths caused by fire

BBC Breakfast presenters Charlie Stayt and Nina Warhurst reported on the devastating fire at Le Constellation bar in Crans Montana ski resort on Friday's show.

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16 h. ago First Swiss ski resort fire victim was promising golfer who 'embodied passion'

Emanuele Galeppini, a teenage Italian golfer, has been named as one of the victims of a fire that killed around 40 people at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland

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18 h. ago Switzerland fire latest: Search for victims of deadly tragedy continues after 40 killed in Crans Montana bar

Swiss Police have confirmed around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a popular Swiss ski resort

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19 h. ago Switzerland to hold five days of mourning after 40 killed in resort fire, as investigators rush to identify victims

Blaze that swept through crowded New Year’s Eve bar in Crans-Montana also injured 115 peopleLe Constellation bar fire in Switzerland: what we know so farSwiss investigators are racing to identify the victims of a fire that tore through a crowded bar, killing about 40 people and injuring 115 who were celebrating at a New Year’s Eve party in the Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana.President, Guy Parmelin, has said the country will hold five days of mourning, describing the blaze as one of the most traumatic events in Switzerland’s history. “It was a drama of an unknown scale,” he said, paying tribute to the many “young lives that were lost and interrupted”. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Switzerland fire latest: King Charles ‘heartbroken’ after 40 killed in ‘horrific’ Crans Montana bar disaster

Swiss Police have confirmed around 40 people have died after a fire ripped through a bar in a popular Swiss ski resort

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23 h. ago Heartbreak as parents scour Swiss ski resort searching for missing children after fire

Dozens of people have already been confirmed dead following the fire at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana resort, best known as an international ski and golf venue, in Switzerland

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25 h. ago RECAP: King Charles 'heartbroken' after Swiss resort NYE party turned into 'nightmarish tragedy'

RECAP: King Charles has offered his sympathies to the 47 people killed and 115 injured after a devastating fire ripped through a luxury ski resort in Switzerland.

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