GOODBYE TO GRAVITY - 27 Killed, More Than 180 Injured At Nightclub Fire In Romania
October 30, 2015, 9 years ago
According to Fox News, at least 27 people were killed and more than 180 hospitalized with injuries on Friday (October 30th) after Bucharest metallers Goodbye To Gravity's pyrotechnical show sparked a fire inside a nightclub in Romania, officials said.
Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea initially said an explosion occurred at a club located in a basement in downtown Bucharest, but authorities at the scene later said there had only been a fire.
The incident occured during a Halloween party at the Colectiv nightclub, which had over 400 people inside at the time, Sky News reported.
Witnesses at the scene told Digi 24 television station the fire began after a spark on a stage where the metal band Goodbye to Gravity was performing ignited some of the polystyrene decor.
Some victims left the scene with severe burns, while others were being resuscitated on the street outside the venue, according to Romanian media reports.
Raed Arafat, a government health ministry official, said that people were treated for burns, smoke inhalation and lesions at hospitals around the capital.
"It is a tragedy without precedent and it is an intervention without precedent," he said.
