Brazil Nightclub Fire Kills More Than 200 [VIDEO]
More than 200 people are dead after a fast-moving fire swept through a nightclub in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria, a college town near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay.
Witnesses say the lone emergency exit at the Kiss nightclub was already blocked by the bodies of the dead as people looked for a way out, many of them succumbing to the deadly smoke. The fire appears to have been sparked after a member of a band playing at the club lit a flare on-stage, similar to the way a nightclub fire in Rhode Island started – that fire killed 100 people in 2003.
LISTEN to the sounds of the crowds and sirens outside the nightclub after the blaze:
