Death Toll In Brazil Nightclub Fire Reaches 245

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At least 245 people were killed and left at least 200 injured when a fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports

Police Maj. Cleberson Braida told local news media that the 245 bodies were brought for identification to a gymnasium in the city of Santa Maria.

 

That toll would make it one of the deadliest nightclub fires more than a decade.

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