What to know about the deadly NYE fire in Crans-Montana

Swiss investigators are probing what caused afire in a bar at an Alpine ski resortthat left around 40 people dead and another 115 injured during aNew Year's celebration.

Most injuries, many of them serious, occurred when the blaze swept through the crowded bar less than two hours after midnight Thursday in southwesternSwitzerland.

The French foreign ministrysaid eight of its citizens were missing in a state