Fire at bar during New Year’s Eve party kills 1, severely injures more than 20 others

One particular person died and 21 folks had been severely injured when fireplace broke out at a bar within the southeastern Austrian metropolis of Graz within the early hours of the New Yr.

Austrian police mentioned that the hearth broke out round 4 a.m. at a bar within the metropolis middle the place folks had been attending a New Yr’s get together.

One particular person, who has not but been recognized, suffered deadly accidents, Styrian state police mentioned in a press release. Not less than an additional three persons are nonetheless in vital situation at a hospital’s intensive care unit.

The reason for the hearth, which broke out on the entrance of the bar, was not instantly identified however investigators had been wanting right into a technical defect.

Graz is situated in southeastern Austria, and is the nation’s second-largest metropolis.