Brazil nightclub horror devastates university: Half the victims were students or graduates One of the worst nightclub fires in history has claimed a terrible toll in the southern Brazil city of Santa Maria. The nightclub fire that claimed 233 lives in Brazil appears to have taken a devastating toll on a nearby university: Almost half the victims had ties to the school. The Federal University of Santa Maria said Monday that 114 people who died at the Kiss nightclub on Saturday night were students, graduates or dropouts. Most of the students killed had just started at the school. The school said that its Center for Rural Sciences had lost the most students, 64. Among them were 26 agronomy students and 15 studying to be veterinarians. A notice on the school's website Monday said that classes would be suspended at least through Feb. 1. About 27,000 students are enrolled there. Revelers were celebrating the end of summer late Saturday at the club in Santa Maria when a band's pyrotechnic display set fire to the soundproofed ceiling and started a fire. Dozens choked to death, and dozens more were trampled in the panic that followed. At least 92 people were still being treated Monday, Reuters reported. A Brazilian television news broadcast said that 50 funerals were set to take place Monday at a city cemetery, and another report said that the army was helping dig graves. Shoes, blood, lime slices scattered across nightclub floor Painful memories for survivors of 2003 club fire in Rhode Island