About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a new year celebration at a bar in a Swiss Alpine resort, police said.Authorities did not immediately have an exact count of the deceased.The Crans-Montana resort is best known as an international ski and golf venue, and overnight its crowded Le Constellation bar morphed from a scene of revelry into the site of potentially one of Switzerland's worst tragedies.

About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a new year celebration at a bar in a Swiss Alpine resort, police said.Authorities did not immediately have an exact count of the deceased.The Crans-Montana resort is best known as an international ski and golf venue, and overnight its crowded Le Constellation bar morphed from a scene of revelry into the site of potentially one of Switzerland's worst tragedies.