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World News See other World News Articles Title: Dozens Dead After 40 Schoolchildren Were Locked Inside Burning Movie Theater Dozens Dead After 40 Schoolchildren Were Locked Inside Burning Movie Theater By Tim Pearce March 28, 2018 at 1:05pm Burials began Wednesday for the victims of a fire that tore through a mall in Siberia, killing dozens of children between the ages of ten and 13, the U.K. Daily Mail reports. The number of dead remains uncertain. Officials say 64 people died in Sunday’s fire. Local activists and families of the victims claim that number should be higher and that they have a list of 85 missing persons. Confusion in recording the names of the dead, which included many who shared surnames, and difficulty identifying bodies may have led to the discrepancy, a spokesman for the activists told the U.K. Daily Mail. Russia’s lead investigator looking into the fire blames a short-circuited wire as the most likely cause, according to The Moscow Times. A series of safety failures seemed to have led to one of the deadliest Russian building fires in recent memory. Locked emergency exits turned a crowded movie theater into a giant crematorium. An entire class of schoolchildren, roughly 40, were trapped inside with adults. “For a long time there was a high temperature in the building, many bodies literally turned to ashes,” the spokesman said. Elsewhere in the mall, fire alarms stayed silent, causing the blaze to catch some unaware without enough time to escape. Family members received frantic phone calls from loved ones trapped inside the theater before the victims feinted from the heat and lack of air. One parent related a call: “My son was crying and asked, ‘When will we be rescued?’” Friends and family of the victims begged firefighters to attempt to save the trapped people, but emergency personnel insisted on finding the source of the fire before taking any other action. Poster Comment: This is horrible news and similar to the Queen of Angels school fire in Chicago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Angels_School_fire Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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