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  • 340 killed in inferno (Customers locked into burning supermarket)

    08/02/2004 8:01:29 AM PDT · by Grig · 76 replies · 2,203+ views
    Evening Standard ^ | 2 August 2004 | Chris Millar
    Hundreds of people were left to die inside a blazing supermarket after security staff locked doors to prevent customers from running out without paying, it emerged today. Initial reports suggested as many as 340 people were killed when the fire tore through a large shopping centre in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion after an industrial propane tank exploded. Police have charged the store's owner Juan Pio Paiva and his son Daniel with homicide after they allegedly ordered security personnel to lock down every exit. Firefighters had to batter down the locked main entrance to the complex before they could reach...