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.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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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The ship was closed to the public in 2006 after it was considered "structurally in danger" and refurbished following a fire on 21 May 2007 which swept through it.

BBC: Cutty Sark

Fire swept through the taxi, where the driver and a passenger were trapped.

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