Swiss investigators are probing what caused a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left around 40 people dead and another 115 injured during a New Year’s celebration.

MONTANA, Switzerland, Jan 4 (Reuters) - When 51-year-old Annouk Perret came to pay her respects to the victims of the Swiss New Year bar fire that killed at least 40 people in the ski resort of Crans-Montana,

Axel Clavier felt like he was suffocating inside the Swiss Alpine bar where moments before he'd been ringing in the new year with friends and dozens of other revelers. The 16-year-old from Paris escaped the inferno,

A fire that tore through a crowded New Year’s celebration at a bar in the Swiss Alpine resort of Crans-Montana shortly after midnight Thursday killed about 40 people and left at least 115 others injured, many of them seriously, authorities said.

This hospital in the heart of the Alps is used to treating winter sports enthusiasts who have accidents. Here's how it coped with a New Year's Eve disaster.

About 40 people dead and 115 injured in fire at Swiss Alpine bar during New Year's celebration, police say. CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — About 40 people dead and 115 injured in fire at Swiss Alpine bar during New Year's celebration, police say.

The New Year's Eve fire at a bar in the Swiss Alpine resort of Crans-Montana left 40 dead and dozens severely injured.

Rast, from the same canton in the Swiss Alps where the New Year's fire killed 40, said, "We race for (the victims) this weekend."