{"id":118511,"date":"2026-08-21T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118511\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:41:09","slug":"two-portuguese-among-injured-in-switzerland-restaurant-fire-portugal-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118511\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Portuguese among injured in Switzerland restaurant fire \u2013 Portugal Resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Portuguese nationals are among the eight people injured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portugalresident.com\/portuguese-restaurant-fire-switzerland-five-missing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major fire that destroyed a building housing a Portuguese restaurant in Switzerland<\/a>, Portugal\u2019s Foreign Ministry has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the Portuguese victims was seriously injured, while the other suffered minor injuries, the ministry said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs is following with consternation the fire at the Portuguese restaurant Beverin in Switzerland,\u201d it said in a statement to state-owned news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lusa.pt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lusa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The identification of those affected is still ongoing, meaning it is not yet known whether any Portuguese nationals are among the five people who remain missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire broke out shortly after midnight in Thusis, a small town in eastern Switzerland, in a building containing apartments and the Beverin restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Graub\u00fcnden Cantonal Police, initial indications suggest the blaze started on the second floor before spreading through the building, which was completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fourteen people managed to escape. Eight were injured: two seriously, two moderately and four with minor injuries. The victims were taken to hospitals in the region and to Zurich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost 100 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intensity of the fire caused the building\u2019s stairwell to collapse, forcing emergency crews to use a crane to open the roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police and the Swiss public prosecutor\u2019s office have opened an investigation to determine what caused the fire.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Portuguese nationals are among the eight people injured in the major fire that destroyed a building housing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[8252,23816,17],"class_list":["post-118511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-fires","tag-portugal","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117133553680828761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118511","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=118511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}