All 40 deceased victims of Crans-Montana bar fire identified

This was announced by the authorities of the canton of Valais on the evening of 4 January. The identification of the 16 unidentified victims is now complete. Keystone-SDA

All 40 of the victims of the fire disaster in Crans-Montana on New Year's Eve have been identified. This was announced by the Valais cantonal authorities on Sunday evening.

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Identification operations carried out by the Valais Cantonal Police, the DVI (Disaster Victim Identification) and the Institute of Forensic Medicine identified 16 new victims who died in the fire on January 1 at the Le Constellation bar, the police said in a statement on Sunday evening.

Among the deceased were two 15-year-old Swiss women, one 22-year-old Swiss woman, one 24-year-old Swiss-French dual national, one 16-year old Italian woman, one 15-year-old Italian woman, one 16-year-old Italian man, one 22-yera-old Portuguese woman and one 17-year-old Belgian woman.

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Also among those identified were a 33-year-old French woman, a 26-year-old French woman, a 23-year-old French man, a 20-year-old French man, a 17-year-old French man, a 14-year old French man and a 15-year-old triple national (France/Israel/UK), according to a statement from the public prosecutor’s office.

Adapted from German by AI/jdp

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