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Kiss nightclub fire

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Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul is located in Brazil

The Kiss nightclub fire started between 2:00 and 2:30 (BRST) on 27 January 2013 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, killing at least 238 people[2] and injuring at least 169 others.[3][4][5][6][7] It is considered the second most devastating fire disaster in the history of Brazil—surpassed only by the Great North American Circus fire of December 1961, which killed 503 people in Niterói, and the deadliest nightclub fire since the December 2000 fire that killed 309 people in Luoyang, China. Because it was a high-casualty fire caused by illegal indoor use of outdoor pyrotechnics, the disaster bore similarities to the February 2003 fire at The Station nightclub in the U.S. state of Rhode Island and the December 2004 fire at the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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