Around 40 dead in fire at Swiss Alps bar during New Year’s celebrations, police say

Around 40 New Year’s revelers were killed after a massive fire ripped through a bar in the Swiss Alps, police announced Thursday.

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 another 115 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 Reynard, head of the regional government. ---More...