{"id":496377,"date":"2026-01-01T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/switzerland-declares-five-day-national-mourning-after-deadly-bar-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:22:51","slug":"switzerland-declares-five-day-national-mourning-after-deadly-bar-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/switzerland-declares-five-day-national-mourning-after-deadly-bar-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland declares five-day national mourning after deadly bar fire"},"content":{"rendered":"The Swiss government has declared five days of national mourning following the devastating fire that occurred in a bar in the alpine town of Crans-Montana, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/various\/new-years-eve-party-around-40-dead-and-115-seriously-injured-in-blaze-in-swiss-ski-resort-bar\/90713392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local media report<\/a>.\n\nThe President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, announced that flags will fly at half-mast in the capital, Bern, during this period.\n\nParmelin expressed that &#8220;a tragedy of such magnitude should not happen again.&#8221; The declaration of mourning marks an official response of grief and solidarity in the face of one of the greatest recent catastrophes in the country.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/baloncesto\/suiza-derrota-a-republica-dominicana-en-el-mundial-sub-19-de-baloncesto\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"496278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Switzerland defeats Dominican Republic in the U-19 Basketball World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0f MOMENTO EXACTO de c\u00f3mo se desat\u00f3 el incendio mortal en un bar de Suiza  <br><br>Se informa que aproximadamente 40 personas murieron y 100 resultaron heridas tras el accidente, y que las v\u00edctimas no pueden ser identificadas debido a las graves quemaduras que sufrieron. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vNlcf7dJMC\">pic.twitter.com\/vNlcf7dJMC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sepa M\u00e1s (@Sepa_mass) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sepa_mass\/status\/2006732424676352359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss government has declared five days of national mourning following the devastating fire that occurred in a bar in the alpine town of Crans-Montana, local media report. The President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, announced that flags will fly at half-mast in the capital, Bern, during this period. Parmelin expressed that &#8220;a tragedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":496379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[41053,42999],"class_list":["post-496377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-fire","tag-switzerland"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2585","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/incendio-Suiza-bar-1080x720-1.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/incendio-Suiza-bar-1080x720-1.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}