Death toll in Romanian nightclub inferno hits 29
November 01, 2015  20:48
Two more people died today of burns from a nightclub fire in Bucharest, a Romanian official said, raising the death toll in the horrific blaze to 29.

Forensic experts, meanwhile, began the first autopsies of victims today.

Raed Arafat, an emergency situations official, said the two had died in the hospital. They were among the 180 injured as they fled a fire and ended up in a panicked stampede Friday night toward the only door in the basement nightclub Colectiv in downtown Bucharest.
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