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At least eight French citizens and six Italians are missing after the fire in a bar in the Swiss town of Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve. The severity of the catastrophe, in which at least 40 people have died, has caused the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Antonio Tajani, to travel to Switzerland to supervise the recovery of the bodies.
Los Italians involved in the tragedy there would have been 19, according to the most updated and provisional data provided by Switzerland to the Italian authorities, according to official sources informing EFE.
Of these 19, a total of 13 people have been located injured and admitted to several hospitals and 6 are still missing.
Italy has offered its help to neighboring Switzerland to face the emergency and three young Italians have already been transferred by helicopter to the Niguarda hospital in Milan, a reference center in northern Italy for cases of major burns.
The three patients are a 30-year-old girl and two 16-year-old boys and they have arrived intubated and with burns around 30% and 40% of their bodies.
Two other young victims of the fire hospitalized in Bern and Zurich cannot for now be sent to Italy due to their serious situation.
Italy has also sent a team of psychologists to Crans Montana to assist relatives searching for missing Italians.
In the case of France, at least nine of its citizens are among the injured, in addition to the eight who are yet to be located.
These figures are an update offered this Thursday night by the French Foreign Ministrythat, in a communication.
The Ministry underlined the “full support to the Swiss people and authorities” and sent condolences to the families of the victims. He also stressed that the French services are fully mobilized on this matter.
The president Emmanuel Macron He spoke this Thursday with the president of the Swiss confederation, Guy Parmelainand so did the diplomatic officials of the two countries. In these conversations, Paris’ availability to provide help if necessary was shown.
Within this aid, three of the injured have already been transferred from Switzerland to hospitals in Lyon and Paris, and other transfers are underway, according to the French Foreign Department.
In fact, France has reserved 19 hospital beds to accommodate injured people from Crans Montana, 15 for adults and 4 for pediatric care.