Several dozen killed in blast and fire at bar in Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana

Police say explosion ripped through a bar where about 100 people were seeing in the new year

• Switzerland resort explosion – latest updates

Several dozen people have been killed and about 100 injured in an explosion and fire at a bar in the luxury Alpine ski resort town of Crans-Montana, Swiss police said early on Thursday.

“There has been an explosion of unknown origin,” Gaetan Lathion, a police spokesperson in Wallis canton in south-west Switzerland, told AFP. “There are several injured, and several dead.”