The local police said that their preliminary toll was about 40 dead, with roughly 115 injured, in the early morning blaze at a bar in the resort town of Crans-Montana.

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Officials: Many more injured, death toll could rise. Investigators say they don’t believe the incident was an attack.

Beatrice Pilloud, the prosecutor general of the Valais canton in Switzerland, told the New York Times that evidence suggests that the sparkler-topped bottles were held too close to the ceiling in the basement of the popular bar in the Alps, Le Constellation.

An official said the sparklers were attached to bottles of champagne held too close to the ceiling. Forty people died and more than 100 were injured. Many of the victims were teenagers.

Swiss investigators are probing what caused a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left dozens of people presumed dead and another 100 injured during a New Year’s celebration.

Survivors of the Swiss bar fire that killed at least 47 people on New Year’s Eve had to break glass windows to keep from burning alive — with one witness describing the gruesome scene as “like a horror movie” Friday.

One person died and a child is in critical condition after flames ripped through a Manchester, New Hampshire apartment building minutes after midnight on New Year's Day.

Dozens of people are presumed dead and about 100 injured, most of them seriously, following a fire at a Swiss Alps bar during a New Year's celebration, police said Thursday.

At least 40 people are feared dead and 100 were injured following the inferno at a bar called “Le Constellation” in the resort town of Crans-Montana, which is popular with