Overview
- Authorities report roughly 40 dead and about 115 injured, many of them young and some minors, after the New Year’s fire at Le Constellation in Crans-Montana.
- Officials stress there is no indication of an attack, with inquiries examining the basement venue’s layout, exits, and a reported secondary explosion caused by the fire.
- Identification will take days, and the Italian Golf Federation named 16-year-old Emanuele Galeppini as one of the victims.
- Overwhelmed hospitals prompted airlifts across Switzerland and to Germany, France, Italy and other countries, while Spain offered to receive injured patients.
- FC Metz trainee Tahirys Dos Santos, 19, suffered severe burns and was flown to a Stuttgart burn unit, with his agent saying about 30% of his body is affected.