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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Athena Stavrou and Maira Butt

Swiss ski resort fire: How New Year celebrations turned to tragedy as sparklers on bottles likely cause of blaze

Around 40 people - many of them young - have been killed after a fire ripped through a busy bar in a popular Swiss ski resort during New Year’s Eve celebrations, in what has been described as one of the country’s “worst tragedies”.

At least 119 others have been injured with the vast majority in a “serious” or “critical” condition as authorities said local hospitals have reached capacity in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana.

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