Everyone injured in Swiss fire disaster now identified: police

Crans-Montana, Switzerland: Swiss police announced Monday they had now identified all 116 people wounded in the devastating New Year blaze in Crans-Montana, with three-quarters of them still in hospital.

Four days on from the blaze that swept through Le Constellation in the Alpine ski resort town, everyone killed and injured has now been identified.

A total of 40 people were killed in the tragedy, all of whom had been identified by Sunday. The average age of those killed was 19.

"All 116 injured people have been identified. Eighty-three of them are still hospitalised," the Wallis cantonal police in southwest Switzerland said in a statement.

The total number of people injured in the disaster was revised downwards, with police having warned in the days following the tragedy that the tolls were likely to change.

"Initially, we reported 119 injured. In reality, three injured people admitted to the emergency room that night were mistakenly attributed to the event," the statement said.

Among those injured were 68 Swiss, 21 French, 10 Italians, four Serbs and two Poles, police said.

Nationals from Belgium, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Republic of Congo and Luxembourg were also among those hurt in the tragedy.

And there were four injured people with dual nationality, given as French-Finnish, Swiss-Belgian, French-Italian, and Philippine-Italian.

The Wallis police said no further information would be given on the identities of those injured, "out of respect for the families".

The most severely burned casualties have been airlifted to specialist burns centres in Switzerland and abroad.

The Swiss government said Sunday that 35 patients had been transferred to specialist clinics in neighbouring Germany, France and Italy, plus Belgium.