New Year celebrations turned to tragedy in Switzerland on Thursday, as a fire tore through a bar packed with young people at an upscale Alpine ski resort, killing 40 and injuring about 119 others, in what was described by the Swiss president as one of the country’s worst tragedies.
The blaze broke out in the early hours of New Year’s Day at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, one of Switzerland’s most exclusive locales. Witnesses described chaos and terror as flames rapidly engulfed a bar in the basement, with people screaming and smashing windows in a desperate bid to escape.
Families of the missing faced an agonizing wait for news of their loved ones on Friday as Swiss officials said identifying…
