Brazil mourns Santa Maria nightclub fire victims Brazil has declared three days of national mourning for 231 people killed in a nightclub fire in the southern city of Santa Maria
At least 230 people have died in a fire that swept through a nightclub in a university city in southern Brazil, police and officials say
The fire began when a band let off fireworks at the Kiss club in Rio Grande do Sul.
Many victims inhaled toxic fumes or were crushed as panicking clubbers tried to escape.
President Dilma Rousseff has been visiting survivors at the city's Caridade hospital