AP PHOTOS: Scenes of grief at Brazil club fire

January 27, 2013
By The Associated Press, Associated Press
Brazil Nightclub Fire

Family members and friends stand around coffins containing the remains of victims after the bodies were identified at a gymnasium in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, as panicked partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a single exit partially blocked by those already dead. Officials counted more than 230 bodies that were brought for identification to the gymnasium in Santa Maria,(AP Photo/Nabor Goulart)

Here are images depicting the aftermath of a fatal nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil. The club was hosting a party for university students when the fast-moving fire caused hundreds of partygoers to stampede toward the exit. Firefighters and police say more than 200 are dead, and at least 200 are injured.

(Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
Featured Video
Lew: Tax System 'Has to be Within the IRS and Apart From Politics'
Obama to Grads: 'I Might Have Been Unemployed. I Might Not Have Been Able to Support a Family'
Bloomberg: Congress Didn't Have the 'Courage to Stand Up to the Increasing Extremist Views of the NRA's Washington Lobbyists'
E-Brief