Scores killed in Brazil club fire

At least 230 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.

Many victims reportedly inhaled toxic fumes or were crushed as panicking clubbers tried to escape.

Bereaved families have gathered at the scene where the fire is out and bodies are being removed.

President Dilma Rousseff, who cut short a visit to Chile, has been visiting survivors at the city's Caridade hospital along with government ministers.

She said earlier that everything possible would be done to help the injured and the families of the victims.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21220308

very very , so many and so many relatives who must be hurting, my thoughts are with them

That's just awful. Fire is not a nice way to die.

OMG it reminds me of the Rhode Island Fire that happened at a Night club here a few years ago, where the band 'Great White' was playing and all the pyro was set up all wrong and there was a huge fire and the doors in the back had only one entry/exit port so the crorwd pushed and pulled to get out people fell.
The outcome was that hundreds died and a couple of band members died all because the pyro wasn't officially checked out and the event center was not officially checked out for proper door ways etc .......
Either ways people died needleesly, too bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!