A fire swept through a popular nightclub in southern Brazil | Nightclub fire in Brazil - Exclusive

	A fire swept through a popular nightclub in southern Brazil | Nightclub fire in Brazil - Exclusive To follow this story and other latest reports you should visit the website mentioned in the above video. Brazil nightclub fire: footage of aftermath At least 232 people were killed in a nightclub fire caused by a pyrotechnics show in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria, the Telegraph's Donna Bowater reports from the country. At least 232 people were killed in a nightclub fire in southern Brazil on Sunday after a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze, and fleeing patrons were unable to find the emergency exits, local officials said. Bodies were still being removed from the Kiss nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria, Major Gerson da Rosa Ferreira, who was leading rescue efforts at the scene for the military police, said. Local officials said 180 people were confirmed dead, and Ferreira said the death toll would rise above 200. He said the victims died of asphyxiation or from being trampled, and that there were possibly as many as 500 people inside the club when the fire broke out at about 2.30 am. Brazilian television footage showed people sobbing outside the club, while shirtless firefighters used sledge hammers and axes to knock down an exterior wall to open up an exit. "It was really fast. There was a lot of smoke, really dark smoke," survivor Aline Santos Silva, 29, told Globonews TV. "We were only a To follow this story and other latest reports you should visit the website mentioned in the above video. You have reached here because you typed <b>...</b>	From: rajeshankumaran Views: 0 0 ratings
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