This handout photograph taken and released on August 21, 2026 by the Cantonal Police of Graubunden (Kantonspolizei Graubunden) shows a fire that broke out in a building in the small town of Thusis, eastern Switzerland. Photo by HANDOUT \/ KANTONSPOLIZEI GRAUB\u00dcNDEN \/ AFP<\/p>\n
Geneva: Two more bodies have been found days after fire engulfed an apartment block in Switzerland, bringing the death toll to four, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n
The blaze broke out Thursday night in a building housing a restaurant and residential flats in Thusis, eastern Switzerland.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Graubunden canton police said that five people were missing after the fire “entirely burned” the building.<\/p>\n
Police said Sunday that one of the five had been located alive earlier, and that a search for the four others had been conducted in “the partially collapsed structure” over the weekend.<\/p>\n
After announcing Saturday the discovery of two bodies in the debris, Sunday’s statement said “the last two missing individuals were also found dead”.<\/p>\n
“The identification of the deceased is not yet complete,” it said, adding that the cause of the fire was also still being investigated.<\/p>\n
A photo released by the police on Friday showed a multi-story apartment building engulfed in smoke with flames shooting out of several windows on the upper floor into the night sky, setting the roof ablaze.<\/p>\n
Fourteen people managed to escape the burning building, even as the stairwell collapsed, that statement said. Eight of them were injured, two seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This handout photograph taken and released on August 21, 2026 by the Cantonal Police of Graubunden (Kantonspolizei Graubunden)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[599,41,17,598],"class_list":["post-119386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-qatar","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-the-peninsula"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117144850596764177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119386","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=119386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}