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Silvia CosteloeCrans-Montana
1:05Watch: BBC reports from the scene of Swiss resort bar fire
There is sheer disbelief on people’s faces here, confronted by this tragedy – they just can’t believe it.
I’ve been coming to Crans-Montana all my life, and this is a wonderful ski resort that just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
There’s a lot of building going on all the time. It’s a place where there’s a lot of money and a lot of great skiing. It’s very family friendly and there are lots of children.
In the summer they’ve got golf, in the winter they’ve got skiing, there are mountain bike trails. It’s a really popular destination year round, quite a high-end market, and not the kind of place where you would expect a fire to engulf a bar.
Le Constellation is somewhere I used to go to when I was much younger. It’s a really classic bar.
It’s very big and right smack in the centre of Crans just by the cinema, and somewhere a lot of locals as well as tourists would be hanging out.
This is a bar where lots of young people went. There will be people who are unsure if those they knew were out there, who are trying to trace them.
Earlier today, I was speaking to a woman who asked: “What is happening in the world if you can’t go to a bar now in Crans-Montana?”
A British tourist told me he’d heard all these ambulances and just thought people had taken the drinking too far.