US Nightclub Fire Claims over Fifty Lives

World | February 21, 2003, Friday // 00:00

At least 54 people have died in a huge nightclub blaze in the eastern US state of Rhode Island. Local officials said the death toll could rise further, with some of the 150 injured people having suffered very severe burns. The club was engulfed by flames within minutes of the fire breaking out during a pyrotechnics display at a rock concert. Some of the dead were killed by the fire and smoke, others are believed to have been trampled as people rushed for the exits.

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