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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett Jones and we begin with Les Constellations.
It's in the Swisky resort of Crommontana, a bar.
One of those bars that tends to attract the young away from home on holiday,
excited to be out and especially so on New Year's Eve.
So there will be many families with great grief today after the death of around 40 people in a fire that ripped through that bar.
More than a hundred have been injured, many with severe burns.
A video posted online from inside the bar shows the beginning of the fire.
Music still blaring out, but the ceiling ablaze.
It got worse quickly.
Another video shows panic people fleeing the building.
Some did get out lucky ones, here are two of them.
I thought it was just fireworks like they do on the 31st.
But people were screaming a lot, there was panic.
We went onto the terrace and then we really saw people screaming.
There was smoke in the elevator.
With the help of the concierge,
I crossed the balcony to the fifth floor and went to the Etual Hotel.
From there, I got out." Well, another survivor,