Rio De Janeiro sources stated that fire swept through a training facility for Brazil's most popular football club Flamengo Friday, killing at least 10 people. Meanwhile the pre-dawn blaze in Rio de Janeiro hit a building that housed youth category players aged 14 to 17. Furthermore in addition to the deaths, three people were injured in the fire and the cause was not immediately known.
Reportedly Globo TV broadcast aerial footage of the
fire, which it said had been brought under control after it burned for two
hours. As per report the fire broke out at 5 am in the Vargem Grande district
of Rio in a modern facility where the top flight professional Flamengo squad
also trains. The Sportv channel said the dead were six players and four team staff
and the main team had been due to practice at the same facility later in the
morning.
Moreover youth league teams also train at the facility, known as Ninho do Urubu and Flamengo is the most popular club in football crazed Brazil. Apparently the training camp is in an area of western Rio that was hit by a huge storm Wednesday night, where six people were killed, because of those heavy rains the football facility remained without electricity or water Friday as the fire broke out.
