Videos shared on social media and verified by The New York Times show how the blaze quickly tore through a popular bar during a New Year’s celebration in the Alps, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than a hundred others.

Tens of people are presumed dead and more than 100 more injured others injured in a fire at ‌a ​bar ​in the Swiss ‍ski resort ‍of Crans-Montana, authorities have revealed.

The couple, who opened Le Constellation bar in 2015, have been placed under investigation over manslaughter by negligence, bodily harm by negligence, and arson by negligence.