This handout photograph taken and released on August 21, 2026 by the Cantonal Police of Graubunden (Kantonspolizei Graubunden) shows a fire that broke out in a building in the small town of Thusis, eastern Switzerland. Photo by Handout / Kantonspolizei Graubünden / AFP
Geneva: A fire that tore through an apartment building in Switzerland on Friday has left five people missing and eight injured, police said.
The blaze in the eastern town of Thusis, which was reported just after midnight, "entirely burned" a building that housed a restaurant and residential flats, police for the canton of Grisons said in a statement.
This handout photograph taken and released on August 21, 2026 by the Cantonal Police of Graubunden (Kantonspolizei Graubunden) shows a firefighters working to extinguish a fire that broke out in a building in the small town of Thusis, eastern Switzerland. Photo by Handout / Kantonspolizei Graubünden / AFP
"The stairwell collapsed, so the roof of the building had to be opened with a crane," it said.
Two of the injured are in serious condition, police said.
This handout aerial photograph taken and released on August 21, 2026 by the Cantonal Police of Graubunden (Kantonspolizei Graubunden) shows a firefighters working to extinguish a fire that broke out in a building in the small town of Thusis, eastern Switzerland. Photo by Handout / Kantonspolizei Graubünden / AFP
Six other people escaped the building without injury.
Around 100 firefighters were sent to the scene, where crews were still working to extinguish the fire Friday morning.
