Surroundings explosion

The Crans-Montana fire on New Year’s Eve leaves 16 French injured and nine missing, according to the French Foreign Ministry.Swiss authorities reported on Friday that 14 French nationals were among the 119 people injured in the fire, which claimed 40 lives.Of the 119 injured, 113 of various nationalities (Swiss, French, Italian, Belgian, Serbian…) had been formally identified by Friday.Until now, the French Foreign Ministry (Quai d’Orsay) had reported eight French citizens as unaccounted for.Additionally, “ten patients” have so far been transferred and are receiving care in French hospitals, the Quai d’Orsay said in its Saturday statement.Two patients were transferred on Thursday and eight on Friday, the ministry detailed, noting that “further transfers” were “being implemented” on Saturday.France is also working to “increase” the number of beds available to accommodate the victims of this tragedy. There are currently 15 adult beds and four pediatric beds, the Quai d’Orsay added.In addition to civilian hospitals in Lyon, Metz, Nantes, and Paris, the military’s burn units of the Armed Forces Health Service have been put on alert, notably at the military hospitals of Percy in Clamart, near Paris, and Sainte-Anne in Toulon, the Ministry of the Armed Forces said on Friday.In Switzerland, investigators continued on Saturday the identification of the 40 deceased.The bodies of the first victims – four Swiss, including two minors – have been identified and returned to their families, the Swiss police announced on Saturday.