Scenes From a Nightclub Tragedy
In this image from amateur video, a woman, right, is seen looking around as fire and smoke start to fill a packed nightclub in Perm near 1 a.m. Saturday morning while a host continues to talk.
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Image from a video grab shows people rushing out of the Khromaya Loshad nightclub Saturday. The victims crushed each other to death and suffocated after the fire tore through the popular nightclub, filling the crowded, barracks-like building with thick black smoke.
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Image from a video grab shows paramedics carrying a stretcher with an injured person toward an ambulance on Saturday.
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Rescuers, right, carrying a victim out of the nightclub early Saturday.
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Police cordoning off the Khromaya Loshad nightclub in Perm on Saturday.
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Relatives of the victims of a fire sitting in a bus as they wait to identify corpses at a local morgue in Perm on Saturday.
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President Dmitry Medvedev sitting during a video conference in his Gorky residence outside Moscow called to discuss the disaster in Perm on Saturday. Medvedev demanded tough punishment for the owners of the club.
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People reading lists with the names of those who were injured in the nightclub tragedy at a hospital in Perm.
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Ambulances taking victims of a night club fire to a plane seen at an airport in Perm. Many of the injured were sent for treatment to Moscow's top emergency hospitals.
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A victim's picture lying with flowers at the nightclub.
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A friend of Timur Parfiriyev, killed in the blaze, weeping at his grave Sunday.
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An Orthodox priest leading a commemorative service for victims of the fire in the Cathedral of Life-giving Trinity in Perm on Sunday.
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