Dozens presumed dead, about 100 injured in fire at Swiss Alps bar during New Year's celebration

A fire ripped through a bar's New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight on Thursday, with dozens of people feared dead and about 100 more injured, most seriously, police said.

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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. "Several tens of people" were presumed killed at the bar, Valais Canton police commander Frederic Gisler said during a news conference. Work is under way to identify the victims and inform their families, but "that will take time and for the time being, it is premature to give you a more precise figure",