Brazil club owners and band pair detained

Brazilian police yesterday detained the owners of the nightclub where a fire killed 231 people, as well as two band members whose pyrotechnics they say triggered the blaze.

Brazil club owners and band pair detained

No charges were filed against the four men, but prosecutors said they could be held for up to five days as police pressed them for clues as to how the fire early on Sunday morning could have caused so many deaths.

Residents in the southern city of Santa Maria began attending a marathon of funerals yesterday. Many of the dead were university students who knew each other. Coffins, many draped with flags of the victims’ favourite soccer teams, lined a gymnasium that has been used as a makeshift morgue.

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