More than 230 people are dead after a fire swept through a nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil.

巴西圣马丽亚市一间酒吧发生火灾造成超过230人死亡。

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A steamship fire that swept through the General Slocum in New York harbor killed some 1 030 people.

纽约港内的一艘汽船失火，大火席卷“斯洛克姆将军号”游艇，约1 030人遇难。

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A massive fire has swept through one of the oldest markets in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, destroying the majority of the shops.

一场大火席卷印度东部城市加尔各答某处历史悠久的集市，大部分店铺被毁。

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Hundreds of family and friends were desperately trying to reach loved ones who were at the nightclub in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria when a fire swept through early Sunday, killing at least 230 people and injuring hundreds more.

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At least 25 people have been killed by a fire that swept through a clothes factory near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, officials say.

BBC: Bangladesh clothes workers die in factory fire

That has filled the jails: in May, 103 prisoners, most of them gang-members, died when fire swept through a grossly overcrowded prison in San Pedro Sula.

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