Russian nightclub fire kills 109; many crushed
Author: The Huffington Post News Editors
PERM, Russia — A blaze sparked by onstage fireworks tore through a nightclub ceiling covered in decorative twigs and plastic sheeting early Saturday, killing at least 109 people and critically injuring about 90 in Russia’s deadliest fire since the fall of the Soviet Union, witnesses and officials said. Many victims died in a panicked crush for the single exit as they attempted to escape the flames and thick black smoke, witnesses said. Hundreds of people had gathered at the Lame Horse nightclub Friday night to celebrate the anniversary of the popular establishment’s opening in the industrial city of Perm in the Ural Mountains
See original here:
Russian nightclub fire kills 109; many crushed
Tags: a-dry-haystack-, daughter, for-raising, interior, president, press, quite-frankly, TED, United States
-
-
-
-
-
Go Freelance
Write for Discussion Boards: $1200 per week...
Administer a Web Business from Home: $4000 per month...
Transcribe Authors' Notes: $80 per hour...
Find thousands of freelance jobs like these: Click here
-
-
Kindle – go global, go Kindle!
-
Kindle — go Kindle, go global
-
-
-
-
This work by heave-ho is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
