Russia mourns victims of fire
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December 8, 2009, Tuesday
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FLAGS flew at half mast and entertainment programs were canceled across Russia yesterday as the country mourned 113 victims of a weekend nightclub inferno and dozens more fought for their lives in hospitals.
One woman died in hospital from severe burns yesterday, raising the death toll to 113.
Mourners heaped red and white flowers in a long line outside the snow-covered entrance to the scene of the disaster at the Lame Horse club in the Urals city of Perm, 1,150 km east of Moscow. Some said corruption had allowed the club to ignore fire safety rules for years.
President Dmitry Medvedev declared yesterday a national day of mourning and has called for harsh punishments for those responsible for Friday's blaze.
Police arrested the owner and two managers at the club on charges of manslaughter and breaches of fire safety.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited some of the people injured in the fire who were airlifted to Moscow for treatment and said: "The main thing now is to save those who were injured. Many of them are in an extremely serious state."
Doctors said many of the injured had burns over more than 50 percent of their bodies and some were being kept alive by artificial respirators.
Prosecutors say the fire, Russia's worst in decades, began when sparks from the fireworks ignited wicker coverings on the ceiling of the packed nightclub, provoking a stampede as patrons rushed toward a single narrow exit.
Most of the victims were in their 20s and 30s.
One woman died in hospital from severe burns yesterday, raising the death toll to 113.
Mourners heaped red and white flowers in a long line outside the snow-covered entrance to the scene of the disaster at the Lame Horse club in the Urals city of Perm, 1,150 km east of Moscow. Some said corruption had allowed the club to ignore fire safety rules for years.
President Dmitry Medvedev declared yesterday a national day of mourning and has called for harsh punishments for those responsible for Friday's blaze.
Police arrested the owner and two managers at the club on charges of manslaughter and breaches of fire safety.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited some of the people injured in the fire who were airlifted to Moscow for treatment and said: "The main thing now is to save those who were injured. Many of them are in an extremely serious state."
Doctors said many of the injured had burns over more than 50 percent of their bodies and some were being kept alive by artificial respirators.
Prosecutors say the fire, Russia's worst in decades, began when sparks from the fireworks ignited wicker coverings on the ceiling of the packed nightclub, provoking a stampede as patrons rushed toward a single narrow exit.
Most of the victims were in their 20s and 30s.
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