SANTA MARIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A nightclub fire killed at least 233 people in southern Brazil on Sunday when a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze and fleeing partygoers stampeded toward ...

A rapidly moving fire killed at least 232 people and injured more than 100 others in a packed nightclub in Brazil early Sunday, The Associated Press reported. A band's fireworks display ignited the ...

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Prosecutors in southern Brazil, where 235 people died when a fire ravaged a nightclub in Santa Maria last weekend, are investigating whether city leaders and inspectors ...

There was no fire alarm. There were no sprinklers or fire escapes. And when a band member tried to put out a fire that apparently had been started by pyrotechnics, the extinguisher didn't work.

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Flammable and toxic foam soundproofing on the ceiling. Just one exit for a club that could hold hundreds of people. Not a ceiling water sprinkler system in sight.