March 25, 2013
Criminal charges are being sought against 16 people in connection with the nightclub fire that killed 241 people in southern Brazil earlier this year, police said Friday. Inspector Marcelo Arigony told a news conference that the mayor and fire chief …
February 4, 2013
State health officials say a 22-year-old man injured in last week’s deadly nightclub fire in southern Brazil has died. The Rio Grande do Sul Health Secretariat says Bruno Portella Fricks died late Saturday from injuries he sustained in last Sunday’s …
January 31, 2013
A lawyer representing the owner of the nightclub in southern Brazil where 235 people died in a fire last weekend says his client “regrets it very much” but insisted he was only partly to blame. Attorney Jader Marques says club …
January 28, 2013
A fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 245 people and leaving at least 200 injured, police and firefighters said. Police Maj. Cleberson Braida told local news media that the 245 bodies were …