{"id":28133,"date":"2019-01-05T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T08:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28133"},"modified":"2019-01-05T08:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T08:23:24","slug":"teenagers-die-in-fire-at-escape-room-game-venue-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28133","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers die in fire at &#8216;Escape room&#8217; game venue in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"93.192333113\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A fire broke out at an &#8220;Escape Room&#8221; game location in northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/poland.html\">Poland<\/a> on Friday, killing five teenage girls and injuring a man, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Police said the dead were found after firefighters put out the blaze, which began around 5pm (16:00 GMT) in the northwestern city of Koszalin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Highly popular with teenagers across Poland, the &#8220;Escape Room&#8221; game has players locked inside a room or building and they must find clues that help them get out.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski said the girls were all 15 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Monika Kosiec, a spokeswoman for police in Koszalin, said the victims were thought to have been at the venue for a birthday celebration. She said a 25-year-old man had been hospitalised with burns and could not be immediately questioned by investigators probing the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for regional firefighters, Tomasz Kubiak, said the bodies were found in a room that was near the fire but was not hit by it.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish state news agency PAP said it had learned unofficially that the girls died from carbon monoxide asphyxiation.<\/p>\n<p>Footage on private TVN24 showed ambulances and fire engines in front of a detached two-storey house with a large &#8220;Escape Room&#8221; sign in front.<\/p>\n<p>Brudzinski ordered fire safety checks to be held at all &#8220;Escape Room&#8221; locations in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>President Andrzej Duda said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/twitter.html\">Twitter<\/a> it was a &#8220;crushing tragedy&#8221; that five young girls died so early in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Koszalin Mayor Piotr Jedlinski announced that Sunday would be a day of mourning in the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out at an &#8220;Escape Room&#8221; game location in northern Poland on Friday, killing five teenage girls and injuring a man, authorities said. Police said the dead were found after firefighters put out the blaze, which began around 5pm (16:00 GMT) in the northwestern city of Koszalin. Highly popular with teenagers across Poland,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}