Door of Swiss Bar Where 40 Died in Fire Was Locked, Says RTS
Messages and flowers at a memorial in front of the Le Constellation bar, in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on Jan. 9.
Photographer: Maxime Schmid/AFP/Getty ImagesA service door that might have offered a second escape route at the Swiss bar where a deadly fire claimed 40 lives on New Year’s Eve was locked at the time of the incident, one of the managers told Swiss prosecutors, according to national broadcaster RTS.
The man, who co-owned the bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana with his wife, told authorities he went to unblock one of the bar’s ground floor doors from the outside and found bodies behind it, RTS reported without saying how it obtained the information.