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100 Dead in Nightclub Explosion

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Fireworks are said to have caused Russian blast.

At least 100 people have died in the nightclub explosion in Perm, Russia, according to police sources. Russian news agencies say pyrotechnics were the source of the blast, but emergency officials have not specified whether the pyrotechnics were involved in the show at the club, or if they were in storage. Approximately 200 people were at the club early Saturday when the accident occurred. Perm is a city of more than a million people, 700 miles east of Moscow.

Read it at The Associated Press