Authorities investigating a New Year’s blaze in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana have identified 16 more of the 40 people killed, including 11 minors and six foreign nationals, police said Sunday.

Teenagers as young as 14 and 15 years old were among those who died in the bar fire, police said.

Those newly identified victims on Sunday included 10 Swiss nationals, two Italians, one person with Italian-Emirati citizenship, one Romanian, one person from France and one from Turkey, Valais police said. No names were given.

One of the 24 victims now identified was named Saturday by his family as 16-year old Arthur Brodard.

“Our Arthur has now left to party in paradise,” a visibly shaken Laetitia Brodard said in a Facebook story posted on Saturday night, speaking to camera. “We can start our mourning, knowing that he is in peace and in the light.”

Brodard’s frenzied search for her son reflected the desperation of families, who did not know whether their loved ones were dead or in the hospital.

Swiss authorities said the process of identifying victims was particularly hard because of the advanced degree of the burns, requiring the use of DNA samples. Brodard also had given her DNA sample to help in the identification process.

Other families are still waiting in anguish.

The Israeli national missing following the deadly fire was named Saturday by Hebrew media as 15-year-old Charlotte Niddam, who also has British and French citizenship.

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