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Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Five people were missing feared dead and eight others were injured early Friday after a major fire razed a restaurant with residential apartments above in the Swiss alpine town of Thusis.
Cantonal police in the eastern Graubünden region said in a news release that nearly 100 firefighters from four area fire departments were scrambled to the scene after the blaze broke out on the second floor just after midnight local time.
The release was duplicate-filed under the secondary category of a missing persons appeal.
They said firefighters' access to the fire was cut off after the stairwell collapsed, forcing them to use a crane to cut open the roof.
