Skyscraper lire
toll now 225
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright; SAG PAULO (Brazil), Feb. 3. The death toll in the Sao Paulo skyscraper fire has passed the 225 mark, and may well rise higher. A State mortuary official said today: “There is no more room in our mortuary, and more people are dying all the time in[ the hospitals.” The leaders of the rescue teams counted about 300 injured. As they continue their search of the gutted 21-floor building, a controversy; over the disaster has!
grown: firemen and the, police say that many people, in panic, leapt i to their deaths un- > necessarily. 1 The authorities are being criticised because the I building, unlike other i modern offices in the! industrial city, had ! > neither a fire escape nor; ii a rooftop helicopter pad which might have been used for rescues. i The police have begun an inquiry into the cause of the fire, which, according to a porter, began when an air-conditionnig unit exploded on the twelfth floor.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 17
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