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About 40 people celebrating at a ski resort bar were killed, and 115 were injured, many of them young, the authorities said.
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Several dozen people are presumed to have died in the fire at a New Year party in the resort of Crans-Montana.
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Several dozen are believed killed in a fire at a New Year's Eve party in a Swiss ski resort bar.
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A fire of "undetermined origin" broke out at the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana at about 1:40 a.m. local time, the Cantonal Police of Valais said in a statement.
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About 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured after a fire broke out at a bar at a popular Swiss Alps ski resort town on New Year's Eve, according to police. The president of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, said that many of the victims were young people and include Swiss residents as well as tourists from neighboring countries and elsewhere.
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Axel Clavier, a 16-year-old from Paris who survived the blaze, described "total chaos" inside the bar.
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