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27 killed, 180 injured in fire at heavy metal concert
Posted On Nov 08 2015
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Hundreds of young people were packed into a music club in central Bucharest, Romania, jamming to the head-pounding heavy metal music filling their ears.
Raed Arafat, an emergency situations official, said that 17 of those who died still had not been identified and he feared that others would die of their injuries.
She said that a few witnesses reported that fireworks hit the roof of the club, sparking the blaze.
“The club was packed with about 300 people inside for a rock concert with a pyrotechnic show”, she said.
Romania was plunged into mourning yesterday after 27 people were killed and almost 200 injured when a fire ripped through an underground nightclub in Bucharest.
The fire started after flames from the fireworks came into contact with the soundproofing materials on the club’s ceiling, according to an eye witness cited by Realitatea TV.
Another woman blamed organisers for the accident, saying: “People were fainting, they were fainting from the smoke”.
According to Fox News, in addition to the multiple fatalities more than 180 people have been injured.
Prosecutors said they are investigating possible manslaughter charges. Several other nightclub fires that have exacted a awful toll on human lives because of crowded conditions and widespread panic as fire spread quickly throughout crowded, enclosed space. “In the next three we rushed to a single door”, a female witness told television station Antena 3.
Hospital sources said at least nine were in a critical condition.
President Klaus Iohannis said he was “shocked” by the incident, adding that he was in “deep pain following the tragedy that took place this evening in the centre of the capital”. There was free entry to the party starting 20:30, and there were about 250 people in the club when the fire started.
190-c-11-(Alison Mutler, AP correspondent)-“faces were burnt”-AP correspondent Alison Mutler reports that eyewitnesses have described the chaos after the pyrotechnics show sparked an inferno and stampede”.
