Overview
- Authorities say casualty figures are provisional, with many of the injured in serious condition after the late-night blaze and explosion.
- Prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud said the case is being treated as a fire without ruling out an attack, while Italy’s foreign minister suggested fireworks could have triggered an accidental blast.
- Injured patients were transferred to hospitals in Sion, Lausanne, Geneva and Zurich, with specialized burn care facilities on alert.
- Italy offered condolences and mobilized civil-defense and medical support, as its ambassador reported about 40 Italians without contact with family but no confirmed Italian victims or injured.
- Brazil reported no registered Brazilian victims so far, and France said two citizens were injured as President Emmanuel Macron expressed condolences.