Antung, Feb. 14, Some 688 corpses have been recovered from the ruins. Twenty-eight persons who were seriously Injured are now In hospital and some of them are expected to succumb, 'A Japanese who was on point duty outside the theatre when the fire broke out worked like a hero rescuing people from the blazing building, but was himself caught by the flames and fatally burned.
The fire exits of the theatre, to which the audience stampeded as soon as the flames were noticed, were locked and hundreds of bodies were piled up on the staircases.
At the height of the fire, the upper gallery, wrenched from its supports lames, collapsed with a sickening crash into the pit below: Reuter.
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