Investigators on Friday set about the painful task of identifying the burned bodies from a blaze that engulfed a crowded bar and killed around 40 people at a New Year’s Eve party in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana.
Emanuele Galeppini, a 16-year-old Italian international golfer who lived in Dubai, was named on Friday as the first of several possible victims from Italy to be identified.
So severe were the burns suffered by the mostly young crowd of revellers in the Le Constellation bar...
Swiss investigators rush to identify victims of New Year’s fire
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Source: scmp.com

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