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Several killed in New Year’s explosion at Swiss ski resort town, say police
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSeveral people have been killed and others injured when an explosion ripped through a bar in the luxury Alpine ski resort town of Crans Montana, Swiss police say.
“There has been an explosion of unknown origin,” Gaetan Lathion, a police spokesman in Wallis canton in southwestern Switzerland tells AFP. “There are several injured, and several dead.”
He says the explosion took place at around 1:30 am in a bar called Le Constellation, which is popular with tourists, as revelers rang in the new year.
Images published by Swiss media show a building in flames, and emergency services nearby.
“The intervention is still ongoing,” he says.
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