Compiled By Heather Hopkins Clement
• Fire broke out at a popular nightclub in the City of Perm on December 5, 2009 causing panic and death in the overcrowded café. A stampede resulted in many victims being trampled or suffocated to death. Witnesses claim security guards had to break down the club's sealed doors. Initial reports were 70 dead and 60 injured.
• Many of the injuries were critical with severe burns, and the death toll as doubled in the week after the incident. About 20 of the injured were taken to Moscow for further treatment. Those that do survive are to receive free plastic surgery.
• Russian ministers rushed to the scene, and the regional government resigned days later.
• Terrorism has been ruled out. Initially, it was believed some kind of short circuit may have caused the fire. Later, it was determined that onstage fireworks were the culprit. Fire safety breaches in the club were ignored for years.
• Arrests to date include the owner and other management.
• President Medvedev has demanded the culprits be brought to justice with harsh punishment.
• Prime Minister Putin says the tragedy reflects all the vices of Russian bureaucracy such as incompetence and corruption. Fire safety codes and their enforcement are notoriously lax in Russia due.
• Families of the victims were initially offered $3400 in compensation, but the amount was raised to $16,700 several days later.
• Victims memorialized with candles and flowers.
• Russia plans nationwide inspections, and Russia's emergencies chief demanded a fireworks ban in public places. A Moscow fire safety watchdog has asked courts to close 54 nightclubs.
• Russian records show up to 18,000 fire deaths a year which is several times the per-capita rate in the United States and other Western countries.
• Nightclub fires have killed thousands of people worldwide.
• The death toll as of December 12, 2009 stands at 146.
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