Officers identify bar fire victims

THE victims of the New Year bar blaze that killed 40 people have been identified, Swiss police said.

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Some 116 were also injured in the fire at Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of CransMontana with more than two-thirds still being treated in hospital.

The injured include 68 Swiss citizens, 21 French nationals, 10 Italians, four Serbs, two Poles and one from Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Portugal and the Republic of Congo.