Overview
- The latest official tallies report at least 47 fatalities and more than 110 injured, many with severe burns requiring transfer to specialized centers.
- Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into accidental ignition and venue safety factors, ruling out terrorism and reporting no arrests.
- Forensic identification is underway and expected to take time, with victims including foreign nationals according to Swiss authorities.
- Italy reports 13 hospitalized nationals, including transfers to Milan’s Niguarda, and six still unaccounted for as consular teams assist families on site.
- Emergency response deployed roughly 40-plus ambulances and about a dozen helicopters, while investigators examine egress constraints, a narrow stairwell and ceiling materials; the EU civil protection mechanism has been activated.