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>http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9810/30/sweden.fire.01/
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>  Fire at Halloween dance in Sweden kills 60
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>  October 30, 1998
>  Web posted at: 1:58 a.m. EST
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>  (0658 GMT)
>  STOCKHOLM, Sweden (CNN) -- Fire raced through an
>  upstairs discotheque jammed with hundreds of teenagers
>  attending a Halloween dance in the southwestern city of
>  Gothenburg early Friday, killing at least 60 people.
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>  About 190 were injured - many seriously - in the fire,
>  which broke out about midnight in the local Macedonian
>  Association building.
>  A disco dance had been organized for young people, mostly
>  between the ages of 13 and 18, to celebrate Halloween,
>  officials said. The dance was held on the building's
>  second floor.
>  "We are still searching the building ... but so far we
>  have found 60 dead," Gothenburg police official Jan
>  Edmundson said on Swedish national radio. "What we know
>  is that there was an explosion."
>  Fire workers carried the dead out wrapped in blankets.
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>  Arson suspected
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>  The cause of the fire was not immediately known. But
>  local rescue service leader Lennart Olin said there
>  were signs that the fire was set, the Swedish news
>  agency TT reported.
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>  "The fact that it spread so fast indicates that it was
>  not a normal fire," he said. Olin said he believed this
>  was the worst fire disaster ever in Sweden.
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>  "It reminded me of the gas chambers at Auschwitz," Olin
>  said, describing the sight that rescuers first saw when
>  they entered the building.
>  Swedish media also reported that 190 people were taken to
>  hospitals with injuries from the fire, and at least seven
>  of them were in serious condition.
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>  The building had been inspected by the rescue service in
>  April and "fulfilled all possible demands as far as
>  emergency exits and the possibility for fast evacuation,"
>  Olin said.
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>  Race to escape
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>  Jamal Fawz, 15, said he was on the dance floor when the
>  blaze started.
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>  "It looked like it started in the ceiling, and lamps and
>  loudspeakers fell to the floor," he said.
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>  "It was chaos. Everybody was trying to get out and people
>  trampled on each other on the way to the exit. ... Others
>  kicked out the windows and jumped out," said Fawz, who
>  estimated there were about 400 people inside.
>  Ambulances were called in from several nearby communities
>  and the Gothenburg rescue services also brought city
>  buses into service to help transport the injured.
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>  Police could not say if it was a racial attack but said
>  the youths were both Swedes and immigrants. Most of the
>  immigrants were from Macedonia or Somalia. Officials said
>  the Halloween dance had not been organized by the
>  Macedonian center.
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>  Gothenburg is Sweden's second-largest city, on the
>  country's west coast about 300 miles southwest of
>  Stockholm.
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>             Reuters contributed to this report.
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