{"id":266938,"date":"2026-01-04T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266938\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:33:09","slug":"teenagers-as-young-as-14-killed-in-swiss-ski-resort-fire-police-confirm-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266938\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers as young as 14 killed in Swiss ski resort fire, police confirm \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Teenagers \u200bas young as 14 and 15 years old were among those who died \u200din the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/2026\/01\/01\/swiss-ski-resort-bar-explosion\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/2026\/01\/01\/swiss-ski-resort-bar-explosion\/\">bar fire on New Year\u2019s Eve<\/a> that killed 40 people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/switzerland\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/switzerland\">Switzerland<\/a>, police \u200dsaid on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police in Valais said they had identified 16 more of those who died in the blaze in Crans-Montana, one of the worst disasters in recent \u200cSwiss history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Those newly identified included 10 Swiss nationals, two Italians, one person with Italian-Emirati \u2060citizenship, one Romanian, one person from France and one from Turkey, \u200cValais police \u200bsaid. \u200dNo names were given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The youngest person identified so far is a 14-year-old Swiss teenager, while two 15-year-old Swiss teenagers were also among the dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/2026\/01\/03\/swiss-prosecutors-place-bar-managers-under-criminal-investigation-after-deadly-fire\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swiss prosecutors place bar managers under criminal investigation after deadly fireOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ten of the other \u2060bodies identified on Sunday were teenagers aged 16 to 18, police \u2060said. Also identified among the \u2060dead were two Swiss men aged 20 and 31, and a French national aged 39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In total, police \u200dhave now identified 24 of those who died in the blaze in the mountain resort, in southern Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mourners light candles as the investigation continues into the deadly New Year's Eve fire at Le Constellation bar on in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Photograph: Getty Images\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/756LTLP2HNH3GV24YROOPUHOMU.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Mourners light candles as the investigation continues into the deadly New Year&#8217;s Eve fire at Le Constellation bar on in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Photograph: Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Late on Saturday police said two Swiss women aged 24 and 22 along with two Swiss men aged 21 and 18 had been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Officials are still trying to identify others killed \u200cin the fire at the \u200cLe Constellation bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Some 119 people suffered injuries, including severe burns, with many transferred to burn units in hospitals around \u200cEurope. Work on identifying the dead and the injured are continuing, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two \u2060people who ran the bar are under criminal investigation on suspicion of offences including homicide by negligence, prosecutors said on Saturday. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenagers \u200bas young as 14 and 15 years old were among those who died \u200din the bar fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,2423,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-266938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-switzerland","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115837560665018445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}