{"id":8972,"date":"2026-01-03T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:00:24","slug":"police-identify-first-four-victims-of-swiss-ski-resort-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8972","title":{"rendered":"Police identify first four victims of Swiss ski resort fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police have identified the first four bodies of people who were killed in a fire at a bar in a Swiss ski resort on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The bodies of two Swiss women aged 21 and 16, and two Swiss men aged 18 and 16 have been returned to their families, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Extensive&#8221; work from officers and the Institute of Forensic Medicine made the identifications possible, Valais cantonal police said in a statement, and work to identify the remaining victims continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The blaze at Le Constellation in Crans-Montana killed 40 people and injured 119 others, officials have said. With many of the injured identified, families now face an agonising wait for information about those still missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The likely cause of the fire <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq6v41jg9jzo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">was sparklers on champagne bottles being carried too close to the ceiling<\/a>, a preliminary investigation of how the fire began found. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Switzerland&#8217;s President Guy Parmelin called it &#8220;one of the worst tragedies&#8221; experienced by the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Further details about the identified victims, including names, have not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A teenage golfer from Italy was the first death to be named, though Swiss and Italian officials have so far declined to confirm his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"a-helpline-has-been-set-up-for-concerned-families:-+41-848-112-117\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">A helpline has been set up for concerned families: +41 848 112 117<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Police #identify #victims #Swiss #ski #resort #fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have identified the fir&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972"}],"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=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}