(Reuters) - a nightclub fire killed at least 233 people in southern Brazil as early as in last Sunday, when a band fireworks show building fire, hurried toward the plugging and crowded export in subsequent panic escape from the party officials said.
The blaze in Santa maria univercity spark lit fireworks use frequency band visual effect. They set fire to acoustic ceiling and club quickly filled with poisonous smoke, the local fire officials say.
Those who died choking smoke, fire brigade chief robson moeller told Reuters. Others in the stamp on crushing.
"The place of gunpowder diffuses instantly become intolerable, heat," survivors MuLiLuo · Tiescher ", is to learn cure, tell GloboNews TV." People can't find the only way out. They go to the toilet, thought it is export and many died there. "
Fire officials say at least one export locked, the club's strong man, he first thought of those who fled tried to jump bar TAB, the customer leave the blockade. Security personnel softhearted, only when they saw the ceiling flame engulfed.
The tragedy, in a meeting with Brazil's most prosperous countries in the world, as the country, and strife, and divisions, in order to improve the safety, security and logistics shortage early in the 2014 World Cup football games and in 2016 the Olympic Games, we demonstrate the economic progress and the first world ambitions, Latin America's largest country.
In Santa maria, a city of more than 275000 people, rescue workers and tired officials at the local gym is used as a makeshift mortuary of family and friends of the victims of the cry.
Mother had been killed, 22, Vivian · Tolio suarez, suarez said: "WuSha inside," this is my life the most sad, the most sad day. "I never thought I'd live to see my girl leave."
The President deer and · luo plug fu shorten an official goodwill visit to Chile, fly to Santa Maria, she cried, because she said in the gym family members of the victims.
Said: "at the moment I can only say that I feel is deep grief, ROM plug, she began her political career, in Rio Grande do Sul, after the occurrence of fire condition.
The news of the fire on Sunday morning, when the local news broadcast image shocked the club called Boate kiss. Gradually, the emergence of a terrible details.
"THE BARRIER OF THE DEAD"
Said: "we met a barrier to death at the exit," colonel commander PeiDeLuoSuo DE mello, guido fire officers and soldiers in the Rio Grande do Sul, arrived at the scene, firefighters found. "We have to clear the way, to those in rest."
Officials say, in the club, may be more than the legal behavior ability, may have more than 1000 people. Although the Internet relevant site posted sometimes as many as 2000 people plug into the club, PeiDeLuoSuo DE mello said, no more than half, should be inside.
He said the club's authorization is open, but in the process be updated the license.
However, PeiDeLuoSuo DE mello do some shocking safety violations - from the torch, during the show locked the door, make people left.
Said in a statement, the working personnel training and ready to deal with any emergency management of the club. It says, this will help the investigation.
When a fire in about a.m. start, many revellers in confusion can't find his way out.
"It all happened so fast," survivors Taynne Vendrusculo tell GloboNews TV. "Panic, the fire spread quickly, in a few seconds."
Once you complete security guards building then fire, they are trying to use the fire extinguisher to control the fire, according to the television interviews, one of the guards, rodrigo · maura. He said, patron trample, they rushed to the door, described as "a horror film."
The band members rodrigo · martins said, fire after the start of the fourth or fifth songs, fire extinguisher without work.
"It may be short circuit, there are a lot of cable, martins said:" Porto alegre Radio Gaucha of the station. He said, only one door is locked. The band members killed in the fire.
The club's question
The owner of the club has been handed over to the police question, GloboNews.
Television pictures showed, sniffles, outside the club in before the dawn, go into battle stripped to the waist, using a sledgehammer to firefighters and axe out wall develop export.
Rescue workers body transferred to the local gym and according to gender separate them. The male victim is more easy to recognize, because most identification, different are women, they left wallet scattered in the scars nightclub. Local authorities said, died in the flames of 120 men and 113 women.
Piles of shoes in burned club and tufts escape desperately pulled hair together. Firefighters who put the agency says, the victims of mobile phone is still in the ring.
Disaster events such as recall, including 2003 in a fire in a nightclub in west huawei, Rhode Island, killing 100 people [ID: nL1N0AW2NR] and Buenos Aires club fire nearly 200 people were killed and 2004,. In both cases, the audience to take or member ignition fire, the establishment of a fire.
Rhode Island fire local and federal officials feel shocked, because such events in the United States, is considered to be strict implementation of safety regulations is rare. After the fire Buenos Aires, Argentina officials closed many clubs and other places, and finally forced the city's mayor's office, because lack of supervision of the city code.
As early as in Sunday's fire happened in Brazil's richest, the most industrious cultural uniqueness regions. Santa maria, about 186 km west of capital, Porto alegre, settled in Germany and other immigrants from northern Europe state.



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