A SHOCKING new video has emerged of partygoers cheering as a fire broke out during New Year’s celebrations at a packed bar in Switzerland.
Footage shows revellers dancing with sparklers in bottles, before a blaze erupted which killed 47 people in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Clips from inside the bar show the ceiling and soundproofing in the Le Constellation bar catching fire, with huge flames licking across the roof.
One man tries to extinguish the flames with a cloth.
Partygoers can be heard cheering as flames spread, not realising scale of horror that would unfold.
Huge sparklers attached to the top of drinks bottles have been blamed for the fire, although the official cause is still under investigation.
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The blaze – which left another 115 people with horrific injuries – started just hours after midnight at Le Constellation bar in the upmarket Alpine resort of Crans-Montana.
Other images of the bar show soundproofing foam fitted on the ceiling, across which the fire seemed to spread at pace.
Soundproofing foam used at clubs is often highly flammable, and it is thought to have fuelled the blaze.
A witness identified only as Emma told BFM: “Some of the bottles were near the ceiling, and it caught fire.
“The whole ceiling was in flames and the fire spread really fast.
“It happened in seconds. We ran outside, screaming and crying.”
A local police spokesman confirmed that “dozens of pyrotechnic devices in bottles” lined tables in the basement of the bar.
As the fire raged into an inferno, partygoers tried to escape, but the exit staircase was narrow.
One brave survivor told of how he fought through the surging flames and made for a narrow staircase before scrambling to safety.
Student Ferdinand Du Beaudiez, 19, was partying with seven pals – including his brother and girlfriend – at Le Constellation when it went up in flames.
But he refused to leave his friends and brother to perish and ran back in to find them.
Ferdinand, who was holidaying with family in the alps, told The Sun: “I went back inside and I found someone lying on the stairs.
“They were completely burned.”
Ferdinand said that the body was so charred he could only see their teeth.
The teen said: “I couldn’t recognise whether it was a woman or a man. I could only see teeth.”
On top of the 47 people killed, 115 were injured, with patients as young as 15 in hospital across several countries.
Large numbers of the dead and injured are teenagers.
The first of the dead to be identified was 16-year-old Emanuele Galeppini, an Italian golfer.
Other families now face an “unbearable” wait for victims to be identified after officials said the process will “take time” – and potentially last several days.