New Delhi, April 21 -- Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday (April 21) strongly criticised reports that families of young victims in a New Year's Eve fire in Crans-Montana were sent hospital invoices amounting to tens of thousands of euros, calling the situation "inhumane" and demanding urgent clarification from Swiss authorities.

In a post on X, Meloni said she was "shocked" by the reports, which included claims that a hospital in Sion had billed more than €70,000 for just a few hours of treatment.

"An insult on top of a mockery, something that only an inhumane bureaucracy could produce," she wrote, expressing outrage at the scale of the charges.

Meloni said she had immediately raised the issue through diplomatic chann...