(28 Jan 2013)
1. Wide of a group of women standing outside gymnasium listening to names of victims being broadcast through speaker, as part of identification process for the victims' bodies taken to a gymnasium
2. Mid of women
3. Mid of two women crying and embracing
4. Top shot of interior of gymnasium where relatives are claiming bodies of victims, relatives walking among coffins
5. Mid of group of men, including soldiers, carrying coffin and setting it down on stand
6. Close of coffin
7. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Odomar Norambia, son killed in nightclub fire:
"A lot of sadness because I lost my son in this tragedy. My son was full of life and full of health at 27 years old."
8. Mid of relatives crying over coffin
9. Mid of relatives crying over different coffin
10. Top wide shot of gymnasium
11. Wide of crowds gathered outside a cemetery where wakes for some of the victims were being held
12. Mid of crowd
13. Interior shot of relatives gathered inside for wake of a victim
14. Wide of two women embracing and crying outside
15. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Jean Noau, some friends killed in nightclub fire:
"(I lost) Many loved ones, many people I enjoyed spending time with, true friends who ended up dying in a tragedy without any explanation."
16. Mid of grieving relatives gathered at cemetery
17. Reverse shot of two people embracing outside cemetery
18. Wide of "Kiss", nightclub where fire broke out
19. Close of sign, reading: (English) "Kiss"
20. Wide of federal police officers gathered at nightclub entrance
21. Mid of policemen wearing T-shirts that read: (Portuguese) "Federal Police"
22. Wide of federal police officers working outside nightclub
23. Mid of onlookers standing behind police yellow tape
24. Mid of partially burned and damaged walls of nightclub
25. Ground shot of bouquet of white flowers left on the ground right in front of nightclub
STORYLINE:
The bodies of 233 people killed in a nightclub fire in southern Brazil were being identified by distraught relatives on Sunday after they were brought to a gymnasium in the city of Santa Maria.
Outside the gymnasium some of the friends and relatives of the victims listened to the names of the dead being announced by loudspeaker.
Inside the gymnasium, families surrounded the coffins of their loved ones.
"I lost my son in this tragedy. My son was full of life and full of health at 27 years old," said Odomar Norambia, who went to the gym to claim his son's body.
A Catholic wake was also held on Sunday at a cemetery in Santa Maria for some of the victims.
Crowds gathered outside, many weeping and embracing each other for comfort.
"(I lost) many loved ones, many people whom I enjoyed spending time together, true friends who ended up dying in a tragedy without any explanation," said Jean Noau.
Witnesses say a flare or firework lit by band members may have started the blaze, though officials said the cause was still under investigation.
An estimated 900 people were inside Kiss nightclub when the blaze erupted, and fire officials say that the exit was partially blocked by those who had already succumbed to smoke and fire.
Survivors, police and firefighters are providing the same account of a band member setting the ceiling's soundproofing ablaze.
More than 100 people are being treated at hospitals.
Santa Maria is a university town in Brazil's southernmost state with a population of around a quarter of a million.
This appears to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.
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