Several dead in explosion at Swiss ski resort town Crans Montana – police

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A picture from May 2024 of the bar where the explosion happened. Photo / Google Maps

Several people were 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 spokesman in Wallis canton in southwestern Switzerland told
AFP.

“There are several injured, and several dead.”

He said the explosion took place about 1.30am (local time) in a bar called Le Constellation, which is popular with tourists, as revellers rang in the new year.

Images published by Swiss media showed a building in flames, and emergency services nearby.