{"id":221380,"date":"2026-01-01T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221380\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:34:07","slug":"several-dead-in-fire-at-bar-in-swiss-ski-resort-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221380\/","title":{"rendered":"Several dead in fire at bar in Swiss ski resort town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several people have been killed and a number of others were injured in a fire which broke out in a crowded bar in the luxury Swiss ski resort town of Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n

As revellers rang in the new year, a “fire of undetermined origin” broke out in a bar popular with tourists, police in the Wallis canton in southwestern Switzerland, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Several people lost their lives and others were injured,” the statement said, describing the incident as “serious” and said “a major emergency response is under way”.<\/p>\n

“A large contingent of police, firefighters, and rescue workers immediately went to the scene to assist the numerous victims,” it said.<\/p>\n

“The operation is still ongoing.”<\/p>\n

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\nThe area around the building has been cordoned off by police<\/p>\n

Swiss daily Blick cited a doctor at the scene suggesting that the death toll could be in the “dozens”.<\/p>\n

Regional daily Le Nouvelliste also said its sources were describing “a heavy toll”, with “around 40 dead and 100 injured”.<\/p>\n

Images published by Swiss media showed a building in flames, and people screaming and running in the dark.<\/p>\n

Swiss media suggested that the fire may have started when pyrotechnics were used during a concert, but police said the cause was unknown.<\/p>\n

Police spokesman Gaetan Lathion earlier there had first been an “explosion of unknown origin”.<\/p>\n

He said the explosion took place at around 1.30am local time (3am Irish time) in a bar called Le Constellation.<\/p>\n

Police said the areas was “completely closed to the public”, and that “a no-fly zone over Crans-Montana has been imposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people have been killed and a number of others were injured in a fire which broke out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-221380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}