Brazil nightclub fire 'leaves 200 dead'

Major Gerson da Rosa Ferreira, overseeing rescue efforts at the scene for the military police, told reporters that 159 bodies had already been identified and removed from the nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria. He said the victims had suffocated or been trampled, and that the death toll was likely to be above 200 people. Estado de S. Paulo reported on its website that as many as 2,000 people were in the nightclub when the fire started.

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