“The first objective is to assign names ​to all the bodies,” Crans-Montana’s mayor Nicolas Feraud told a press conference ⁠on Thursday evening. Mathias Reynard, head of government of the canton of Valais, said experts were using dental and DNA samples for the task. Many knew victims and some said they were lucky not to have been there themselves. They were people like us,” said Piermarco Pani, an 18-year-old who, like many others in the town, knew the bar well. “And honestly, I’ll need thank my mother a hundred times for not letting me go,” she said at ⁠the vigil for the victims.

Source: The Hindu January 02, 2026 13:22 UTC