People lay candles near the Le Constellation bar, where a devastating fire left dead and injured during the New Year’s celebrations in Crans-Montana, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, January 1, 2026. ANTONIO CALANNI / AP Hundreds gathered in silence in the freezing night in Crans-Montana on the evening of Thursday, January 1, laying flowers and lighting candles to remember those killed and injured in a horrific blaze as they celebrated the New Year. Around 40 people died and more than 100 were injured in the blaze that ripped through the crowded Le Constellation bar around 1:30 am. The atmosphere among those who came to mourn the tragedy was deathly quiet. Many of those who stood, motionless, overlooking the scene of the tragedy, knew people who remain unaccounted for, or who were badly injured. People spoke in whispers, if at all. The only sound came from a generator humming by the temporary white tents erected outside the bar. Mourners laid tributes on a table temporarily put up at the entrance of the road leading down to the bar, …