Sunday 27 January 2013

Nearly 250 killed in a fire at a nightclub in southern Brazil

Raphael Michilis Fonseca
Brazilian authorities confirmed the number of victims killed in the at The Kiss club in Santa Maria, south Brazil, reached 245. Around 200 other people were injured and at least 50 are still hospitalized.

Bodies started being identified and the first list was already displayed at the entrance of the sports centre which is serving as temporary morgue in the student city of Santa Maria.

This is the second biggest fire in Brazil's history, after another incident killed 503 in a circus in 1961.

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