Dance hall deaths
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Rescue workers sifted through the remains of the building watched by weeping relatives of the victims, amid fears that more bodies might be trapped beneath the rubble. The fire apparently started when someone tossed a lighted firework across the hall where about 1,000 students from a Buenos Aires college were celebrating the holidays.
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