{"id":381379,"date":"2026-01-01T09:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381379\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:21:06","slug":"deadly-explosion-hits-swiss-ski-resort-bar-dw-01-01-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381379\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly explosion hits Swiss ski resort bar \u2013 DW \u2013 01\/01\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people were killed and others injured after a blast at the\u00a0Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana, Swiss police said early Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u00a0said the blast occurred at around 1:30 a.m. (0030 UTC\/GMT) local time at Le Constellation, a venue popular with tourists, as visitors were ringing in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said\u00a0more than 100 people had been\u00a0in the bar at the time of the incident. Police, firefighters and several helicopters were on site in the aftermath.\u00a0The reason for the explosion was initially given to be &#8220;unknown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire started around 1:30 a.m. this morning in a bar called &#8220;&#8216;Le Constellation,'&#8221; police spokesperson Gaetan Lathion said.\u00a0&#8220;More than a hundred people were in the building, and we are seeing many injured and many dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just at the beginning of our investigation, but this is a internationally renown ski resort with lots of tourists,&#8221; Lathion said. &#8220;We are seeing many injured and many dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said the area had\u00a0been completely closed off, and a no-fly zone was\u00a0\u200dimposed over Crans-Montana.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story that will be updated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people were killed and others injured after a blast at the\u00a0Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana, Swiss police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-381379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}