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3 days of mourning after Brazil nightclub inferno

The Brazilian government has declared three days of national mourning  after at least 232 people were killed in a fire at a nightclub in the university city of Santa Maria.

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Reports from Brazil say 800 people were packed into the nightclub at the centre of the weekend inferno thought to have been started by a pyrotechnics display.

Its believed most of those killed choked on toxic smoke.

The club had just one working fire exit.
 

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