Paraguay shop fire kills over 100

[Ichhabe]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3526436.stm


This is bad, and it is getting bader. Norwegian news has confirmed over 215 dead so far. A sad day for Paraguay. :(

[Deuterium]

Ugly ugly ugly.

[achilles]

A tragedy! nothing more :(

[MEGR]

Man that's freaking terrible.

[ROY H]

life for you but still sad.Lets all cry and fell sorry for them because we know that will all bring them back to life and everone will live happer ever after.

[PsihoKeke]

They yust told in the news, that the managment tried to prevent people from exititng the shoping center, becouse some of them havent paid for the goods.

[Ichhabe]

283 confirmed deaths.

[Secret Squirrel]

283 confirmed deaths.

Have they figured out yet what caused the fire?

[budanski]

283 confirmed deaths.

Have they figured out yet what caused the fire?
Didnt the article state it was a gas explosion?

[Secret Squirrel]

283 confirmed deaths.

Have they figured out yet what caused the fire?
Didnt the article state it was a gas explosion?

ahem..


it is thought the fire was caused by a gas explosion at midday on Sunday when the Ycua Bolanos centre was packed with weekend shoppers.

"Thought" to have been caused and "confirmed" are two very different things when dealing with a fire (especially in the world "this day and age"). ;)

[Ichhabe]

They still search for dead people inside the building. Doubt that the investigation inside has started yet.

Paraguay is a very poor country, and Argentina has send health personell and planes to their assistance.

Whatever the cause is, some heads are going to roll over this tragedy.

[foxtrot023]

It has been confirmed that the explosion was created by a gas tank. The owners of the S/M have been detained, as they ordered the closing of the gates to stop people from leaving the S/M without paying. Of the close to 300 deaths, the majority have been caused by intoxication.

Personally I hope they kill the fuking owners for being animals.

Source: www.elmundo.es

[Steve Andrews]

Up to 340 now.

I feel for the firefighters, they look poorly equipped.
Can't imagine how they feel.

[Ichhabe]

On the news they reported that security guards at the shopping center opened fire at fire men trying to rescue those who was trapped inside. (there ain't no emoticon big enuff in the world to cover this if true.)

If this is true, no novelist in the world I think could come up with such an idiotic plot.

[radon]

On the news they reported that security guards at the shopping center opened fire at fire men trying to rescue those who was trapped inside. (there ain't no emoticon big enuff in the world to cover this if true.)

If this is true, no novelist in the world I think could come up with such an idiotic plot.

If this is and everything else is true , the responsible are murderers. :bash: Locking the doors could be a very very stupid and greedy idea but wtf shooting the firemen? There is no logic. Howto trap as many people inside a burning house and watch them burn :( Maybe this is just a rumor.

[Khabbi]

RIP :petting:

[Marsuitor]

According to Norwegian media, the owner of the place is under arrest and will be charged with murder for giving the order to lock the place up. Don't know what will happen to the guards, but i'm thinking they're in for it too...

[Secret Squirrel]

Slight update...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (CNN) -- Several survivors of a fire in the Paraguayan capital that killed at least 318 people say locked doors slowed their exit from the burning supermarket.

Authorities have detained the father and son who own the Asuncion market while an investigation is launched.

"I ran toward the main door, but it was closed," survivor Esther Benitez told The Associated Press from her hospital bed.

The owners strongly deny locking the doors, but survivors say they were locked to prevent theft.

"The security guards confirmed that the doors weren't closed by them," owner Juan Pio Paiva told the AP.

President Nicanor Duarte is pledging a full investigation as rescue efforts are slowed by worries the building may collapse.

Authorities have identified 246 bodies, and they estimate that another 80 have yet to be identified.

More than 100 people were injured, and 15 of them are in a critical condition from severe burns and asphyxia, interior ministry officials told CNN.

The fire, followed by two explosions, broke out about noon Sunday in the first floor of the three-story building, and blazed for seven hours before firefighters were able to put it out.

Preliminary investigations focused on a possible short circuit, officials said.

Among the dead were numerous children, who had been accompanying their parents on their weekend shopping or eating in the commercial complex's restaurant.

In addition to the market and restaurant, the building included offices and an underground parking garage.

Hundreds of people were inside the store when the fire and explosions occurred, witnesses said.

Television footage showed several floors of the multilevel supermarket, including the parking garage, covered in soot.

Victims' bodies were laid out on the pavement in front of a discotheque next to the downtown building.

Public Health Minister Julio Cesar Velazquez told reporters, "I have never seen a disaster like this. The firefighters were taking out, as best as they could, the bodies, the injured and people suffering from smoke inhalation. It's horrible."

"This is a moment of great anguish," the president -- who visited the fire site -- told the AP.

"I've come here to provide support to the injured and the families of the deceased."

Journalist Sanie Lopez Garelli contributed to this report.

[Wilco]

life for you but still sad.Lets all cry and fell sorry for them because we know that will all bring them back to life and everone will live happer ever after.


I think I speak for everyone in this forum when I say your are a complete asshat, no respect for the dead whatsoever.


R.I.P.