June 25, Online: The death toll from a fire that ripped through a packed nightclub in Surabaya early Friday has reached 10, including a mother and her baby
em>June 25, Online: The death toll from a fire that ripped through a packed nightclub in Surabaya early Friday has reached 10, including a mother and her baby. An Australian and a Japanese national also were among the dead, said police Lt. Col. Bahagia Dachi. Some witnesses told officers a spark from a cigarette triggered the blaze. The RedBoxx Cafe erupted in flames at 3:30 a.m. as hundreds of people filled the club in the country’s second largest city, some to watch the World Cup soccer game.
Your comments:
It was sparked by a cigarette? Is this a joke? Did they have propane
tanks open in the club? I sure hope we get a better explanation for
this. There has to have been some kind of gas leak, or someone set this
fire.
An entire building does not combust from a spark from a cigarette, unless someone was smoking a
train size one.
S. Martin
the US
Of course! It’s always blamed on a cigarette spark. Do you realize how
improbable this is?
Marbee
The US
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