New Year horror at Swiss bar

BAR TURNED FROM PLACE OF CELEBRATION INTO SITE OF TRAGEDY . Forty killed, more than 100 injured in massive fire

- JAMEY KEATEN, STEFANIE DAZIO & JOHN LEICESTER

ABOUT 40 PEOPLE were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar's New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, police said.

Authorities did not immediately have an exact count of the deceased. The Crans-Montana resort is best known as an international ski and golf venue, and overnight, its crowded Le Constellation bar morphed from a scene of revelry into the site of potentially one of Switzerland's worst tragedies.