At least 102 people have been killed following an explosion Friday night in a Russian nightclub.
People were gathered at midnight for a party at the Lame Horse nightclub in the Ural Mountains industrial city of Perm, when pyrotechnic fountains on stage ignited the club's ceiling.
In seconds, the hall was engulfed in flames, with a crush of people trying to escape through a single narrow exit, as others attempted to flee by breaking down other doors.
Hospitals report 160 wounded, most of them in critical conditions and on ventilators, suffering from severe burns and respiratory injuries.
This is being called the deadliest Russian fire since the fall of the Soviet Union, but the second major tragedy in a week.
Last week, the high-speed Nevsky Express passenger train was bombed between Moscow and St. Petersburg, the first terror attack outside of the largely Muslim Caucasus region since 2004. At least 30 people were killed in the attack, which derailed 3 of the train cars through the detonation of 15 pounds of TNT. Eighteen people are still unaccounted for.