{"id":8456,"date":"2026-01-01T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:42:11","slug":"several-dead-and-injured-in-explosion-at-swiss-ski-resort-town-crans-montana-police-say-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8456","title":{"rendered":"Several dead and injured in explosion at Swiss ski resort town Crans-Montana, police say | Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Several people have been killed and others injured when an explosion ripped through a bar in the luxury Alpine ski resort town of Crans-Montana, Swiss police said early on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">About 100 people were in the bar at the time of the blast, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThere has been an explosion of unknown origin,\u201d Gaetan Lathion, a police spokesperson in Wallis canton in southwestern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/switzerland\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Switzerland<\/a>, told AFP. \u201cThere are several injured, and several dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He said the explosion took place at about 1:30am (0030 GMT) in a bar called Le Constellation, which is popular with tourists, as revellers rang in the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cMore than a hundred people were in the building, and we are seeing many injured and many dead,\u201d he said. The area has been completely closed off, and a no-fly zone has been imposed over Crans-Montana, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The BBC also reported that several people were killed and others injured in the blast, citing police. Images published by Swiss media showed a building in flames, and emergency services nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A reception centre and helpline have been setup for impacted families, Lathion said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe\u2019re just at the beginning of our investigation, but this is a internationally renowned ski resort with lots of tourists,\u201d Lathion said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A news conference was scheduled for 10am by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Crans-Montana is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland, just 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Matterhorn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>With Agence France-Presse and Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>This is a developing story\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#dead #injured #explosion #Swiss #ski #resort #town #CransMontana #police #Switzerland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have been kille&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}