Girls aged 14 and 15 among 24 victims of Crans-Montana fire identified
Police yet to release names as relatives being notified, while hundreds of people join silent procession in Swiss townVisual guide: what happened in Crans-Montana?Investigators have identified 24 of the 40...
By Deborah Cole and agencies · The Guardian World
Police yet to release names as relatives being notified, while hundreds of people join silent procession in Swiss town Visual guide: what happened in Crans-Montana? Investigators have identified 24 of the 40 people killed in the New Year’s Eve bar fire in Switzerland , including children as young as 14 and 15. Police in Valais canton said on Sunday they had managed to identify 16 more bodies from the blaze in Crans-Montana, one of the worst disasters in recent Swiss history, with forensic work particularly slow-going due to the horrific burns sustained by most of the victims. Continue reading...