Overview
- Swiss authorities report about 40 dead and roughly 115 injured after the Crans-Montana bar blaze, with no terror indications as investigators examine possible pyrotechnics and fire-safety compliance and begin DNA and dental identifications during a five-day mourning period.
- Russia’s Investigative Committee says 27 people, including two minors, died in Khorly, with 31 taken to hospitals and 14 still receiving care, and one child in extremely critical condition according to the Health Ministry.
- Investigators in Khorly seized fragments of multiple drones, opened a terrorism case, and ordered more than 26 medical, genetic, explosive and fire-technical examinations while deploying federal forensic specialists.
- Attribution remains contested as a Russian-appointed official alleged involvement by a specific Ukrainian drone unit and cited a mass cyberattack on a victim list site that was later restored, while Ukrainian military spokesmen deny targeting civilians.
- Separate holiday incidents prompted probes across Russia, including a Yakutia house fire that killed five people with a preliminary short-circuit finding, a Primorye blaze that left three dead, a Belgorod strike injuring two, and a fireworks injury that cost a child several fingers in Blagoveshchensk.