Death toll from Crans-Montana new year bar fire rises to 41

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A teenager injured in a New Year's Eve fire that engulfed a bar in a Swiss ski resort has died in hospital, taking the death toll from the disaster to 41, the local public prosecutor announced Sunday.

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"An 18-year old Swiss national died at a hospital in Zurich on January 31," the Wallis canton's public prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud said in a statement.

"The death toll from the fire at Le Constellation bar on January 1, 2026 has now risen to 41."

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

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