Overview
- Italy’s golf federation confirmed the death of 17-year-old Emanuele Galeppini, a rising talent from Genoa, as the first publicly named victim.
- Authorities report an estimated 40 to 47 people dead and roughly 115 injured after the New Year’s blaze at the Constellation bar in Crans-Montana.
- Italy says 16 nationals remain unaccounted for with 12 to 15 hospitalized, while France reports eight missing citizens.
- Swiss hospitals transferred the most serious burn cases to specialist units in Lausanne, Zurich and Geneva, with doctors treating multiple patients aged 15 to 25 for third-degree injuries.
- Officials are probing why the fire spread so quickly and say narrow passages and stairs hindered evacuation, as Switzerland observes five days of national mourning and identification continues.