Five teenage girls die in fire at Polish ‘escape room’, where players are deliberately locked in
- The dead girls, all aged 15, had reportedly been celebrating a birthday at a gaming facility in the northern Polish city of Koszalin
Five teenage girls have been killed and one man hurt in a fire that broke out at an “escape room” game, in which players are locked in a room and have to solve puzzles to get out, officials in northern Poland said on Friday.
Police said the dead were found after firefighters put out the blaze, which began around 5pm at an escape room venue in Koszalin.
Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski said the girls were all 15 years old.
Monika Kosiec, a spokeswoman for police in Koszalin, said the victims were thought to have been celebrating one of their birthdays. She said a 25-year-old man had been sent to hospital with burns and could not immediately be questioned by investigators about the cause of the fire.
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.
