A service door that might have offered a second escape route at the Swiss bar where a deadly fire claimed 40 lives on New Years Eve was locked at the time of the incident, one of the managers told Swiss prosecutors, according to national broadcaster RTS.
The man, who co-owned the bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana with his wife, told the authorities he went to unblock the door on the ground floor of the bar himself from the outside and found bodies behind it, RTS reported without saying how it obtained the information.