The La Baza club in the north-eastern city of Iasi, apologised for not meeting minimum safety requirements.
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“We consider we have been ignorant and irresponsible”, the venue’s Facebook page reads. “We were lucky. We don’t want to put anyone’s life in danger”, it said on its Facebook page.
The owners are being held responsible for allowing admittance to too many people in a venue not equipped with sufficient emergency exits.
The fire engulfed the basement club Colectiv during a concert on Friday night. The latest death was announced Monday evening.
Romanian media and witnesses have questioned safety regulations at the club. As many as 26 people died in the fire at the club and one died shortly after being taken to hospital.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Colectiv on Monday to light candles and bring flowers in remembrance of the victims, after thousands marched in silence on Sunday. As the nation went into its third day of mourning, schools in Bucharest instructed students to dress in black, and a few teachers suspended classes and let pupils pay their respects at the club, which has become a shrine to the dead and the focus of the nation’s grief.
It is reported 17 of those who died have still not been identified. Employees in blood transfusion centers said the only time they saw so many people queuing up to donate blood was at the Romanian Revolution in 1989.
Rugina, 38, a drummer who wasn’t in the Goodbye to Gravity heavy metal band playing Friday night when the fire erupted, struggled to help victims of the stampede who were in a heap on the ground, witnesses said.
The mayor of Bucharest’s fourth district, Cristian Popescu Piedone, said the club met the necessary conditions to operate, and that the district was not responsible for how its owners set up the interior, according to a separate StirileproTV report.
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Burn specialists from Israel and Germany arrived yesterday and a French team was on its way, health officials said. Hospital spokesman Andrei Carantino said the medics brought special bandages to treat severe burns.
