About 40 people were killed and 115 injured in a blaze in at a New Year's Eve Party at an upmarket Swiss ski resort, with the disaster likened to scenes from a horror film. Most of the victims of the fire in Crans-Montana are thought to be young people, but identification of the bodies is expected to take several days at least. The fire broke out at roughly 1.30am local time in the Constellation Bar as people celebrated the turn of the year. Emergency services were on the scene minutes later,