Romanian nightclub fire death toll climbs to 50 after teenagers die

Death toll from the fire that broke at a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest at the end of October has climbed to 49, Mediafax reported. Goodbye to Gravity’s drummer died on November 8 while being transported for treatment to another burn unit in Switzerland.

Maftei, 36, was also a blogger and well-known photographer and was covering the heavy metal concert at the Colectiv basement club when the fire erupted after a spark from a pyrotechnics show ignited foam decor.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation plane left Romania late on Sunday to transport 12 burns victims to the United Kingdom and Norway. The only surviving member is lead singer Andrei Galut.

In a separate development, the former mayor of the Bucharest district where the basement Colectiv nightclub was located, Cristian Popescu Piedone, was released Wednesday by authorities along with two others.

The venue’s three owners have been detained on suspicion of manslaughter.

The Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned after a protest of about 20,000 demonstrators called for him to stand down.

14 of them are in critical condition, 7 are in a very serious condition, and 52 are stable.

Two persons injured in the deadly Colectiv nightclub fire will be transferred to a hospital in Germany on Tuesday by a military plane of the National Defence Ministry.