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Lone exit was blocked as 233 people choked to death inside Brazilian nightclub

Santa Maria (Brazil), Jan 28: A fast-moving fire roared through a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, filling the air in seconds with flames and a thick, toxic smoke that killed more than



The other band members escaped alive because they were the first to notice the fire.



"It was terrible inside -- it was like one of those films of the Holocaust, bodies piled atop one another," said Meinerz.  

"We had to use trucks to remove them. It took about six hours to take the bodies away."

Television images from Santa Maria, a university city of about 260,000 people, showed black smoke billowing out of the Kiss nightclub as shirtless young men who attended the university party joined firefighters using axes and sledgehammers to pound at the hot-pink exterior walls, trying to reach those trapped inside.

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