CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — About 40 people were killed and 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar’s New Year’s celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, police said.
Authorities did not immediately have an exact count of the deceased.
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