{"id":226776,"date":"2026-01-04T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226776\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:21:07","slug":"swiss-investigators-identify-24-people-killed-in-bar-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226776\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss investigators identify 24 people killed in bar fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities investigating a New Year’s blaze in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana have identified 24 of the 40 people killed, including 11 minors and six foreign nationals, police said.<\/p>\n

Local police, who had already identified eight Swiss victims, announced they had identified 10 more Swiss nationals – four women and six men aged 14 to 31, as well as two 16-year-old Italians, a 39-year-old Frenchman, a 16-year-old dual national of Italy and United Arab Emirates, an 18-year-old Romanian and an 18-year-old Turk.<\/p>\n

The blaze also left 119 people injured.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Swiss prosecutors \u2060said they have placed under criminal investigation \u200dthe two managers of the bar.<\/a><\/p>\n

The offences \u2060they are suspected of \u2060having committed are homicide by negligence, \u2060causing bodily \u2060harm by negligence and arson by negligence, the \u2060prosecutors’ office said in \u200da statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities investigating a New Year’s blaze in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana have identified 24 of the 40…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-226776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776","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=226776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}