The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 12/04/2009 11:52 PM
At least 15 people have died in a fire that gutted popular nightclub M City in the North Sumatra capital of Medan on Friday night.
As of 11 p.m. local time, rescue workers were struggling to find more people feared trapped in the building, particularly on the third and fourth floors, news portal kompas.com reported.
The head of the city’s fire brigade, Vukko Redward W. Bakkara, said most of the deaths were due to suffocation. He said his men faced difficulties extinguishing the fire on the third floor of the building, which was mostly made up of karaoke lounges, as most of the doors were tightly closed.
A total of 20 fire engines were deployed to douse the fire.
Three women were among the casualties. All the bodies were taken to Pirngadi State Hospital for identification.
Redward suspected faulty circuits caused the fatal blaze.
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