{"id":118445,"date":"2026-08-21T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118445\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:19:25","slug":"5-missing-in-switzerland-after-fire-rips-through-restaurant-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118445\/","title":{"rendered":"5 missing in Switzerland after fire rips through restaurant, apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aug. 21 (UPI) — Five people were missing feared dead and eight others were injured early Friday after a major fire razed a restaurant with residential apartments above in the Swiss alpine town of Thusis.<\/p>\n

Cantonal police in the eastern Graub\u00fcnden region said in a news release<\/a> that nearly 100 firefighters from four area fire departments were scrambled to the scene after the blaze broke out on the second floor just after midnight local time.\n<\/p>\n

The release was duplicate-filed under the secondary category of a missing persons appeal.<\/p>\n

They said firefighters’ access to the fire was cut off after the stairwell collapsed, forcing them to use a crane to cut open the roof.<\/p>\n

Two of the fourteen people who managed to get out of the four story building were seriously injured. Two others sustained moderate injuries and four were slightly hurt.<\/p>\n

The injured were taken to hospitals in Chur, Thusis, Ilanz and far away as Zurich.<\/p>\n

Images from the scene show flames pouring from the windows of the upper floors, engulfing the top of the building.<\/p>\n

Police said they were working with the public prosecutor’s office to investigate the cause of the fire and that they had secured the scene.\n<\/p>\n

After the fire was brought under control emergency responders were seen removing roof layers to enable investigators to search for evidence and possible human remains<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking News banner. Image courtesy of UPI Aug. 21 (UPI) — Five people were missing feared dead and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[17,10997,4293],"class_list":["post-118445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-switzerland","tag-top-news","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117132995219928022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}