Locked doors prevented or slowed the escape of supermarket shoppers in Asuncion, Paraguay, from a fast-spreading fire that killed well over 300 people and injured hundreds more, survivors said.

SURVIVORS of an inferno in a crowded supermarket said locked doors slowed their escape from the fire that killed at least 311 people in Paraguay's worst disaster in more than half a century.

Survivors of an inferno in a crowded supermarket said locked doors kept them from escaping the fast-spreading fire that killed at least 296 people in Paraguay’s worst disaster in more than half a century.

An exploding gas canister in a food department may have fuelled a fire that killed up to 340 people in a crowded supermarket in Paraguay’s worst disaster in more than half a century.

Dozens of people were killed when fire swept through a supermarket on the outskirts of Paraguay’s capital Asuncion today.