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I thought it would be a nice idea for a topic where we could discuss the news (whether that's worldwide or national that's up to the poster). I'll start off with this tragic news.
Brazil nightclub fire in Santa Maria kills 233

At least 233 people have died in a fire that swept through a nightclub in a university city in southern Brazil, police and officials say.

Local media say the fire began when a band let off fireworks at the Kiss club in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Many victims reportedly inhaled toxic fumes or were crushed as panicking clubbers tried to escape. Bereaved families have been weeping over the coffins of their loved ones at a gym used as a temporary mortuary.

Out of respect for the dead, Brazil postponed a ceremony due on Monday in the capital, Brasilia, to mark 500 days to the 2014 football World Cup.

The first funerals in Santa Maria are expected on Monday morning, local newspaper Diario de Santa Maria reports. Authorities have released the names of 230 of the victims, with three bodies still to be identified. According to Brazilian broadcaster Globo, most of the victims were aged between 16 and 20. More than 100 people were being treated in hospital, mostly for smoke inhalation.

President Dilma Rousseff, who cut short a visit to Chile, has been visiting survivors at the city's Caridade hospital along with government ministers. She said earlier that everything possible would be done to help the injured and the families of the victims. "I would also like to say to the Brazilian people and to the people of Santa Maria that we stand together at this time, and that even though there's a lot of sadness, we will pull through," she said, speaking from Chile.

A firefighter told BBC News he had never seen such a tragedy in his life, with the victims "so young". The priority for the authorities is now to identify the dead with many distressed relatives arriving at the scene, but in the hours ahead the focus will turn to the cause of this accident and safety procedures at the club, the BBC's Gary Duffy reports from Sao Paulo. The death toll, which had earlier been put at 245, was revised down by fire officials.

'Ceiling on fire'

The fire broke out some time after 02:00 (04:00 GMT) when between 300 and 500 people are believed to have been in the club, where a band was playing. According to Diario de Santa Maria, students from the city's federal university (UFSM) were holding a freshers' ball. Thick smoke engulfed the venue after acoustic insulation caught fire, officials say. "We looked up at the ceiling in front of the stage and it was catching fire," eyewitness Luana Santos Silva, 23, told Brazil's Globo TV. "My sister grabbed me and dragged me out on the ground." The exit, she said, was a "small door for lots of people to come out by".

The young woman's sister, Aline Santos Silva, 29, commended the emergency services: "Help arrived really quickly, ambulances, police." Fire crews tried knocking through an exterior wall to help those trapped inside to escape. Fifty bodies were found in the club's toilets, a doctor told AP news agency. "The toxic smoke made people lose their sense of direction so they were unable to find their way to the exit," said Dr Paulo Afonso Beltrame, speaking by phone from Caridade hospital. "Apparently they confused the bathroom door with the exit door."

Speaking to BBC Brasil, Sergeant Arthur Rigue, from the local fire department, said: "I never witnessed a tragedy like this in my whole career. "These people are so young… There were many bodies piled up in various parts of the place. Some were in the toilet. They died of asphyxiation."

Fire chief Guido de Melo told local media. "People started panicking and ended up treading on each other."

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A temporary morgue was set up in a local gym as the city's main morgue is unable to cope. Family members came to identify the dead, led in one by one to see the bodies, Diario de Santa Maria reports. President Rousseff said the air force had made "resources" available at an air base near Santa Maria to help. Santa Maria has a population of about 250,000 people, while UFSM has some 27,000 students.
So sad :( RIP to all of the victims... :(
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that's really sad, heard it yesterday :( rip.

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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has just resigned! Now we're getting a king since a looooong loooooong time! ^^
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Nonkovic wrote:Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has just resigned! Now we're getting a king since a looooong loooooong time! ^^
Since 1890 if i am correct. And congratulations! I have heard that the Norwegian royal family is good friends with your royalities :)
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DirtyTok wrote:
Nonkovic wrote:Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has just resigned! Now we're getting a king since a looooong loooooong time! ^^
Since 1890 if i am correct. And congratulations! I have heard that the Norwegian royal family is good friends with your royalities :)
Yeah could be, heard somthing about those two are buddies as well! :P lol
But i knew it was a long time since the last king, but didn't know how long...
But if the King resignes in a lot years from now, there's almost no Dutch blood left in the veins of our next queen. :+ She will be like: 1/4 Dutch 1/4 German and 1/2 Argentina... :lol:

Looking forward to our new King though, cause the royals could use a somewhat younger generation.
Normally we've got ''Queensday'' on the 30th of April, but from next year it'll be the 27th of april and it's from then on called ''Kingsday'' although i'm for 99% sure everyone still will call it queensday. :+ So we've got a ay off 3 days earlier from next year on! Whoohooo! LooooL
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I'd rather have it on the 30th though. Usually fits in perfectly with the (school)break in May, so you have the next day off as well :+. The upcoming calendar year won't be much of a problem, but what happens the year(s) after that...sucks
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DjVero wrote:I'd rather have it on the 30th though. Usually fits in perfectly with the (school)break in May, so you have the next day off as well :+. The upcoming calendar year won't be much of a problem, but what happens the year(s) after that...sucks
Haven't checked that one out actually.... :\
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Police confirmed that at least six people were injured, three of them shot, in the latest mass shooting in the US.
­The shooting occurred around 10:30 a.m. MST (12:30 p.m. EST) at an office building in Phoenix, Arizona. Police believe that the shooter is a white male in his 60s, who was seen fleeing the scene in a white SUV. After firing his gun and shooting at least five people, he escaped from police, who don’t know where the suspect is.[...]
http://rt.com/usa/news/three-people-shot-phoenix-112/

Discussion will heat up again probably, and it is really terrible that things like these happen :(
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The media fucking hypes everything up. Six people got shot, it's not a "mass shooting." Thanks to the fucktards behind the news desks, we can now have more heated discussions.
Oh, it was in a complec full of law, insurance, and medical offices. Shooting done by a 60 year old man. It was probably the guy pissed off at the government the way it is now.
If the media wants a mass shooting, go to Syria and find out about the dozens of people who got shot execution-style in a city, or the children that die every fucking day.

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Reverse Ghost wrote:The media fucking hypes everything up. Six people got shot, it's not a "mass shooting." Thanks to the fucktards behind the news desks, we can now have more heated discussions.
Oh, it was in a complec full of law, insurance, and medical offices. Shooting done by a 60 year old man. It was probably the guy pissed off at the government the way it is now.
If the media wants a mass shooting, go to Syria and find out about the dozens of people who got shot execution-style in a city, or the children that die every fucking day.
which is not in a civilized country...they are at war if you haven't found out yet.

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