'Are they OK': desperate search for the missing after Swiss fire

"Are they OK? Are they just at the hospital?" one of the 17-year-olds says.

They have not heard from them since a blaze tore through a New Year's celebration in the luxury resort town of Crans-Montana, turning what should have been a night of revelry into a globe-spanning tragedy.

Police estimate around 40 people have been killed and about 115 injured, many of them young visitors to the Swiss Alps.

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