T&T's Am­bas­sador to Brazil Dr Hamza Rafeeq says no Trinida­di­ans were among the 245 peo­ple killed in a fire at a club in Brazil. Me­dia re­ports in Brazil say the fire be­gan when a band let off fire­works at the Kiss club in San­ta Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

Many vic­tims re­port­ed­ly in­haled tox­ic fumes or were crushed as oth­ers pan­icked as they at­tempt­ed to es­cape. T&T For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an per­son­al­ly con­veyed his and the gov­ern­ment's re­grets over this hor­ri­ble in­ci­dent to his Brazil­ian coun­ter­part An­to­nio Pa­tri­o­ta, who is at­tend­ing the CELAC Sum­mits in San­ti­a­go, Chile.