Dozens killed in Swiss ski resort fire
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Loman loppuminen ja pakkaaminen voi tuntua ikävältä. Jopa niin ikävältä, että laukkujen kasaaminen oven eteen tuntuu hyvältä ajatukselta. You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 1st of January. As many as 40 people have died in a fire during New Year's celebrations at a ski resort in Switzerland. I thought it was just fireworks like they do on the 31st. But people were screaming a lot. There was panic. We went onto the terrace and then we really saw people screaming. 100 others were injured in the blaze at a bar in Kram, Montana. The authorities say there are casualties from several different countries.
We have the latest. Also in the podcast, a US travel ban on dozens of countries comes into force, protesters take to the streets in Iran, and why China is ramping up production of red lanterns. But we begin in the Swiss ski resort of Croix-Montana, where as many as 40 people are dead after a fire broke out in a bar during New Year celebrations. I thought it was just fireworks like they do on the 31st, but people were screaming a lot. There was panic. We went onto the terrace and then we really saw people screaming.
There was smoke in the elevator.
With the help of the concierge, I crossed the balcony to the fifth floor and went to the Etoile Hotel. From there, I got out. The blaze started at 1.30 in the morning. Police are still investigating the cause. This man, Edrien, told the French channel BFM TV what happened.
There were people who didn't know if their loved ones were inside, I think.
Seeing parents arrive in cars at full speed, worried about where their children were, it was like a horror movie. Very worried people and total chaos in the town. We left before the firefighters arrived. We left after just ten minutes. For the first 10 minutes, we saw about 20 people on the other side of the street, in front of the nightclub. What's worrying is, seeing 20, and those were just the first 20, and they were already badly injured. So for the others, it must have been terrible inside. We didn't see the flames at first, just thick white smoke. We saw the flames after 5 or 10 minutes, and we saw people rushing out, breaking windows, men in terrible pain. Well, Sylvia Costolo, a BBC journalist who is in Crown, Montana, told us more about the bar and the scene today.
The police have been putting up these white screens as they continue working their forensic work at the Constellation. It's just a real atmosphere of shock here today.
So the Constellation bar is a real institution here.
It's been around since I was a teenager for at least 40 years. It a big bar, and it's not posh.
This is quite a nice sort of posh ski resort. There's quite a lot of luxury. It was famous in the 80s for hosting the World Cup skiing, and it's coming back next year. So it's a really sort of happening place.
But it is quite luxury. A lot of the bars are quite luxury. But the Constellation was not like that. It's a really big bar. It's got an upstairs with TV screens where people go and watch football matches. I was talking to an English tourist earlier who said, you know, I go there and I watch, you know, I just watch the football here, the footy, you know, when it comes on.
And downstairs, it just had a big kind of bar and space where I suppose yesterday people would have been dancing and drinking.
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