From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.Brazilian authorities say a night-club fire killed more than 200 people early today,mostly students in the southern city of Santa Maria.The BBC's Gary Duffy reports witnesses saythe fire began after a member of a band that was playing at the time lit fireworks on stage.We are getting very clear as eyewitness accounts from people who were inside that club at the timeand what they are saying is that the flames spread extremely quickly.Even so it is not the fire itself which has been blamed for the majority of deaths.What the police and the fire services are saying quite emphatically is thatpeople died in the panic to get out.So the question's now you are focusing on whether really the safety procedures in this club were adequate.The BBC's Gary Duffy in Brazil.Protests continue in Egypt against President Mohammed Morsi for a fourth day.Police in Cairo clashed with street demonstratorswho say Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood political party have betrayed the country's revolution.Separately in the northern city of Port Said,mass funerals were held today for some of the more than 30 people who died in rioting yesterday.Three people were killed today.The violence erupted yesterday after a court sentenced 21 soccer fans to death for their role in in the deadly soccer riot a year ago.Now President Morsi has declared a state of emergency in Port Said and two other Egyptian provinces.French forces along with soldiers from Mali are moving north toward the Malian town of Timbuktu.
