Swiss investigators believe sparklers stuffed into champagne bottles started the fire that killed 40 people in a ski bar on New Year’s Eve.
More than 100 people were also injured, most seriously, in the blaze at the Le Constellation bar in the upmarket Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana, in the region of Valais.
Speaking to the press in Sion on Friday, authorities revealed they believed but had not established for sure that the fire was started when sparklers in the tops of bottles of alcohol caught and ignited the ceiling.
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