Brazil night club fire kills 245 in Santa Maria

At least 245 people have died in a fire that swept through a nightclub in a university city in southern Brazil, police and officials say.

Local media say the fire began when a band let off fireworks at the Kiss club in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

Reports say panic spread as people tried to get out. Many victims reportedly died from inhaling toxic fumes or from being crushed.

The fire is now out and bodies are being removed from the scene.

President Dilma Rousseff cut short a visit to Chile and was returning to Brazil following the blaze, her spokesperson said.
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The smoke spread really quickly, it didn't give enough time for people to get out”

Aline Santos Silva Eyewitness

In a tweet, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Tarso Genro, said it was a "sad Sunday" and that all possible action was being taken in response to the fire. He would be in the city later on Sunday, he added.

A firefighter told BBC News he had never seen such a tragedy in his life, with the victims "so young".

The priority for the authorities is now to identify the dead with many distressed relatives arriving at the scene, but in the hours ahead the focus will turn to the cause of this accident and safety procedures at the club, the BBC's Gary Duffy reports from Sao Paulo.


 
OH!! shit!! for some minutes I made a repost!!
 
The singer was (according news) the guilty of turning the firecracker that caused the tragedy




Danilo Jaques, The Accordionist. The only band member who died

 
Santa Maria - more pics

More pics are beginning to hit the net of this tragedy

 
OMG thanks, some of the dead guys are models!!!

Can you find photos of dead bodies?

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Maicon Douglas Moreira Iensen


What a loss
 
All those beauties are now cold and alone... Despair.

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