Numerous teenagers among the dead identified in Crans-Montana blaze, police say

Teenagers as young as 14 and 15 years old were among those who died in the bar fire on New Year’s Eve that killed 40 people in Switzerland, police said on Sunday, as the Pope passed on his sympathies to the victims and their families.

Police in Valais said they had identified 16 more of those who died in the blaze in Crans-Montana, one of the worst disasters in recent Swiss history.

Those newly identified victims on Sunday included 10 Swiss nationals, two Italians, one person with Italian-Emirati citizenship...