Escape-Room-game ends for five girls fatally

are you as fun, especially in the Trend: the so-called Escape Rooms, you must get rid of a group of players. In Poland, five girls died. The authorities want to check the fire protection for such offers now.

In case of a fire during a so-called Escape Games are in Poland, several girls were killed. As the Agency PAP reported, citing a fire Department spokesman, broke out in the evening in a building in Koszalin in the North of the country during such a game a fire. Five girls died, a 25-year-old man was brought to information of the investigators, with severe burns to the hospital.

In the case of the death of the victims was a Teenager, at the age of about 15 years, said interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski in the news channel TVN24. They would have celebrated together the birthday of one of the girls. The families of the victims of the politicians of the law and justice party (PiS) to said non-bureaucratic help.

fire in the next room

The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda spoke on Twitter of a "devastating tragedy". Five cheerful girl had early been snatched from this life. The mayor of Koszalin declared Sunday a day of mourning.

On TV footage from the scene of the incident were emergency vehicles in front of a two-storey house, before the sign for the Escape Room was advertised. The cause of the fire, there was initially no further information. According to initial findings, the fire brigade, the fire broke out in an adjacent room.

Lack of fire protection requirements?

In the case of an Escape-Game, a group trying to escape from a locked room. In many countries, Escape developed Games in the past few years, to a leisure entertainment. In Poland, operators of Escape must obtain Rooms so far, no special permission from the fire Department.

In the case of Koszalin, the public Prosecutor has started investigations of - among other things, the witnesses and the owner of the Escape-Room-operator should be interviewed. Minister of the interior, Brudzinski announced Inspections of the fire protection measures in all of the similar Offers in Poland. This should already start on Saturday, it said.