169 dead in Buenos Aires club fire
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A fire in a crowded Buenos Aires nightclub has killed at least 169 people and injured 375, officials said.
The fire began about 11 p.m. (9 p.m. ET) on Thursday during a rock concert in the Republica Cro Magnon disco, in the Once section of Buenos Aires, according to a spokesman in the mayor's office.
Witnesses said there were as many as 5,000 people inside the club when the fire broke out.
"People were pushing and jumping over each other trying to get out," one of the concert-goers, Jose Maria Godoy, told The Associated Press.
"It was like a human wave. As people fell down running for the door, others just simply ran over them or pushed them down."
Another survivor told AP: "You couldn't see anything, the air was thick with smoke."
-- CNN correspondent Carolina Cayazzo contributed to this report.
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