From Fox News: Dozens of New Year’s revelers are feared dead Thursday after a massive fire ripped through a bar in the Swiss Alps.
The chaotic blaze at the Le Constellation venue in the Alpine ski resort municipality of Crans-Montana, Switzerland, which erupted around 1:30 a.m. local time during a New Year’s celebration, also left around 100 injured, many of them seriously, authorities said.
“This evening should have been a moment of celebration and coming together, but it turned into a nightmare,” said Mathias Rénard, head of the regional government.
“Several tens of people” were killed at the bar, Valais Canton police commander Frédéric Gisler added during a news conference.
Officials said there were so many injured that the hospital’s intensive care and operating areas quickly reached full capacity.
Those describing the scene of people trying to escape the smoke and flames said it was like a horror movie.
As to the cause of the fire, the article states:
Two women told French broadcaster BFMTV that they were inside when they saw a male bartender carrying a female bartender on his shoulders. The female bartender was holding a lit candle in a bottle that set fire to the wooden ceiling. The flames quickly spread and collapsed the ceiling, they told the broadcaster.
However, the report then states: The Valais Canton attorney general said it was too early to determine the cause of the fire, but authorities have ruled out terrorism.
The venue is popular with international tourists as well as local residents.
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