Girls aged 14 and 15 among 24 victims of Crans-Montana fire identified
by Deborah Cole and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#72JR3)
Police yet to release names as relatives being notified, while hundreds of people join silent procession in Swiss town
Investigators have identified 24 of the 40 people killed in the New Year's Eve bar fire in Switzerland, including children as young as 14 and 15.
Police in Valais canton said on Sunday they had managed to identify 16 more bodies from the blaze in Crans-Montana, one of the worst disasters in recent Swiss history, with forensic work particularly slow-going due to the horrific burns sustained by most of the victims.
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