Relatives And Friends Dance Next To The Coffin Of A Nightclub Fire Victim At Cemetery In Santa Maria

Relatives and friends dance and mourn next to the coffin during the burial of fire victim Tanise Cielo, at a cemetery in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. The city in southern Brazil started burying the 233 people killed in Sunday’s fire at the Kiss nightclub after the conflagration caused by a band’s pyrotechnic display. An early investigation into the tragedy revealed that security guards briefly prevented partygoers from leaving through the sole exit. And the bodies later heaped inside that doorway slowed firefighters trying to get in. <AP Photo/Nabor Goulart>

Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Vinicius Rosado through a cemetery during his burial in Santa Maria, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. A fast-moving fire roared through the crowded, windowless Kiss nightclub in this southern Brazilian city early Sunday, killing 233 people. Many of the victims were under 20 years old, including some minors.

People gather to honor the victims of a fatal fire at Kiss nightclub in a plaza on the surroundings of the club in Santa Maria, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. A blaze raced through the crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing about 230 people as the air filled with deadly smoke and panicked party-goers stampeded toward the exits, police and witnesses said. <AP Photo/Felipe Dana>