{"id":46647,"date":"2026-01-04T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=46647"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:55:47","slug":"c3vel0xvlvgoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/01\/04\/c3vel0xvlvgoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify 16 more victims of Swiss bar fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The bodies of 16 more victims of a bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana have been identified by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The youngest person was a Swiss girl aged 14, with nine aged under 18. The group includes people of Swiss, Italian, Romanian, Turkish and French nationalities, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This brings the number of people identified who have been killed as a result of the fire to 24, authorities said in a statement. Eight Swiss citizens were identified on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A criminal investigation into the people who ran Le Constellation bar is under way, while victim&#8217;s families are enduring an agonising wait for information about loved ones who are still considered missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police said no further details will be released about the victims they had identified out of respect for their relatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sparklers on bottles being carried too close to the ceiling is the likely cause of the fire during New Year&#8217;s celebrations at the bar, a preliminary investigation found. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The devastating fire killed at least 40 people and injured 119 others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Many of the dead and missing are teenagers. Le Constellation was a venue known to be popular with a younger crowd in the ski resort town, where the drinking age is 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The eight identified and returned to their families on Saturday were all aged between 16 and 24, Swiss authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Saturday, the Italian ambassador to to Switzerland, Gian Lorenzo Cornado, said the identification process was slow because of the severity of the burns many victims had suffered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The French couple who own the bar &#8211; named by the media as Jacques and Jessica Moretti &#8211; are suspected of manslaughter by negligence, bodily harm by negligence and arson by negligence, the prosecutors&#8217; office for the Valais region said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Beatrice Pilloud, Valais canton lead prosecutor, said in a statement that investigators were looking into whether the acoustic foam on the venue&#8217;s ceiling was &#8220;the cause of the problem&#8221;, as well as &#8220;whether it complies with regulations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Police #identify #victims #Swiss #bar #fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of 16 more victims of a bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana have been identified&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46649,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647\/revisions\/46649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}