鈥淪everal dozen鈥 people are presumed dead, and others were injured when an explosion ripped through a bar at the luxury Alpine ski resort town of Crans Montana, Swiss police said early on Thursday.
鈥淭here has been an explosion of unknown origin,鈥 Gaetan Lathion, a police spokesman in Wallis canton in southwestern Switzerland, told AFP.
鈥淭here are several injured, and several dead.鈥
He said the explosion took place about 1.30am (local time) in a bar called Le Constellation, which is popular with tourists, as revellers rang in the new year.
Images published by Swiss media showed a building in flames, and emergency services nearby.
鈥淭he intervention is still ongoing,鈥 he said.
- Agence France-Presse
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