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New Year’s Eve party: around 40 dead and 115 seriously injured in blaze in Swiss ski resort bar
Around 40 people are dead and 115 seriously injured after a fire tore through the "Le Constellation" bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana in southern Switzerland on January 1, according to Valais cantonal police. An investigation is continuing to determine the exact cause of one of Switzerland’s worst tragedies.

The deadly New Year Eve’s fire was “one of the worst tragedies that our country has experienced”, Swiss President Guy Parmelin told a press conference at 5pm on Thursday. Many of the victims were young people, he noted.

“Around 40 people have died and 115 are injured, many severely,” Frédéric Gisler, police commander for canton Valais, told reporters.
The priority over the coming days is to identify the people who have died “so that their bodies can be returned rapidly” to their families, he said.

The injured have been transported to various hospitals across Switzerland, including Sion, Lausanne, Bern, Geneva and Zurich. In Sion, 60 people are being looked after; in Lausanne 22 patients are currently being cared for, while Zurich has admitted over a dozen burn victims. Other countries – including France, Germany and Italy – have offered to treat patients with severe burns.

Trapped in basement
Le Constellation is a large bar in Crans-Montana which has existed for several years. It could reportedly hold up to 300 people and has a small terrace, although it is not clear how many people were present on New Year’s Eve.

On the moments before the fire started, he said there were waitresses in the bar “with champagne bottles with flares too close to the ceiling”, and that the “fire took hold suddenly”.
The attorney general told the press conference that she could not confirm anything while the investigation is ongoing.

The cantonal and municipal police, the regional fire service and helicopters were rushed to the scene immediately after an alert was given just after 1.30am. Authorities said 13 helicopters, 42 ‍ambulances and 3 “disaster trucks” had been mobilised
The area has been completely closed off, and a no-fly zone has been imposed ​over Crans-Montana, which is located in canton Valais in the heart of the Swiss Alps.
A telephone helpline has been set up on: 00 41 84 811 21 17.

International reactions
Parmelin thanked countries that have offered support in the wake of the fire – pointing specifically to neighbouring France, Germany and Italy. He said the authorities are carrying out investigations into “the exact circumstances” of this incident.
“We owe it to victims”, their families and all Swiss citizens, he said.

He added that flags will be flown at half mast in Bern for five days. A “tragedy of such a scale” must not happen again, he said
Reactions to the tragedy have also been flooding in from abroad.
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Six reported killed in Iran clashes, as cost-of-living protests continue to rage
Widening demonstrations sparked by Iran’s ailing economy saw the first deaths on Thursday with at least six people reported killed — including 5 protesters and one member of the security forces — as the demonstrations spread into the Islamic Republic’s rural provinces, authorities said.

On Thursday, Iran’s Fars news agency reported two people killed in clashes between security forces and protesters in the city of Lordegan, in the province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, and three in Azna, in neighboring Lorestan province.

The state-run IRNA news agency reported on the Guard member’s death but did not elaborate. An Iranian news agency called the Student News Network, which is believed to be close to the Basij, directly blamed demonstrators for the Guard member’s death, citing comments from Saeed Pourali, a deputy governor in Iran’s Lorestan province.

Meanwhile, state television separately reported on the arrests of seven people, including five it described as monarchists and two others it said had links to European-based groups. State TV also said another operation saw security forces confiscate 100 smuggled pistols, without elaborating.

Iran has said it is no longer enriching uranium at any site in the country, trying to signal to the West that it remains open to potential negotiations over its atomic program to ease sanctions. However, those talks have yet to happen as US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have warned Tehran against reconstituting its atomic program