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Fire breaks out in Braddell View apartment

In a video a reader shared with The Straits Times, a seventh floor flat in Braddell Hill appears to be engulfed in flames.

Crans-Montana fire: Grieving parents protest at Swiss handling of autopsies for victims

Vinciane Stucky, mother of 17-year-old Trystan Pidoux, who died in the bar fire at the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana last month, looks on during an interview in her home in Pully, Switzerland, February 5, 2026. REUTERS/Cecile Mantovani

Argentina declares emergency over Patagonia wildfires

Wildfires have ripped through vast tracts of forest in Patagonia since the start of the Southern hemisphere summer.

One person taken to hospital, 70 evacuated after fire breaks out in Bukit Merah HDB flat

Black smoke was seen emitting from a unit on the 12th floor of Block 103B Depot Road on Jan 24.

Shock, anger as bar owner linked to fatal Swiss fire is bailed

(FILES) Owners of Le Constellation bar Jacques Moretti (L) and Jessica Moretti arrive for a hearing at the Office of the public prosecutor of the Canton of Valais, in Sion, on January 9, 2026. A court in the canton of Valais (south-western Switzerland) ordered on January 23, 2026, the release on bail of Jacques Moretti, co-owner with his wife of the bar in the Crans-Montana ski resort, which was the scene of a deadly fire on New Year's Eve. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Italian ski resort Courmayeur bans indoor sparklers after deadly Swiss fire

"Fountain candle" sparklers are thought to have caused a New Year fire at a bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, that killed 40 people.

‘Incomprehensible’: Swiss bar fire fatalities not given routine autopsies, say lawyers

Police outside Le Constellation, the bar where a fire swept through New Year celebrations, in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on Jan. 2.

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Final death toll from Hong Kong fire put at 168

The names of the deceased will not be released at this stage to respect their grieving families’ wishes, security secretary Chris Tang said.

Online platform launched for Swiss bar inferno evidence

An informal memorial in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, for the 40 people who died in a New Year bar fire.

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