One Italian is dead and six are missing after a New Year's Eve party fire at a bar in the plush Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana that has so far left 47 victims. Emanuele Galeppini, 17, has been named as the first Italian victim of the club fire. (ANSA)

Several dozen people are presumed to have died in the fire at a New Year party in the resort of Crans-Montana.

Axel Clavier, a 16-year-old from Paris who survived the blaze, described “total chaos” inside the bar.