Tiga Penari Striptease Tewas Terbakar
Exotic Dancers are Burned to Death
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
TIGA wanita muda terbakar hingga tewas di sebuah klub malam di Rumania setelah pemiliknya lupa memberitahu petugas pemadam kebakaran bahwa ketiganya masih berada di dalam.
Mihaela Tuca, 24, Nicoleta Vasiliteanu, 23, dan Nicoleta Cengher, 22, semuanya tewas setelah kebakaran memusnahkan sebuah restoran di kota pesisir pantai, Constanta, tempat mereka bekerja secara ilegal.
Ketiga korban tewas berada di ruang ganti di lantai atas ketika asap mulai memenuhi ruangan klub pada Minggu dini hari (6/4), sehingga mereka terjebak api. Lantai atas runtuh, dan melemparkan mereka ke kobaran api di lantai dasar, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Penari lain, Nicoleta Buirencu, 19 masih menari di atas panggung saat api mulai berkobar dan berhasil diselamatkan, dengan luka bakar yang parah.
George Karam, 60, pemilik klub Beirut di resor tepi laut yang populer Constanta di timur ibukota Rumania, Buckares, berhasil lolos dari kobaran api bersama para tamu dan staf restoran ketika kebakaran terjadi.
Petugas pemadam kebakaran mengira ruang restoran telah kosong, tetapi ketika mereka menyusuri puing-puing kebakaran tiga jam kemudian setelah api padam, mereka menemukan mayat dari ketiga penari malang tersebut.
Mariana Szarkany, ibu dari mendiang Nicoleta Cengher, mengatakan: ´Pemilik klub itu biadab. Dia menghitung koki, ia menghitung pelayan, ia menghitung bartendernya.´
"Kenapa dia tidak memberitahu petugas masih ada gadis-gadis penari? Apakah dia lupa tentang mereka? Apakah dia lupa tentang para penari yang membawa suasana meriah di restoran?´
Ibu mendiang Maria, Nicoleta Vasiliteanu menambahkan: "Mereka membawa mayat gadis saya keluar restoran dan membawanya ke kamar mayat.´
"Saya melihat restoran itu terbakar, saya tahu anak saya berada di lantai atas, saya rela mati untuk menyelamatkan anak saya! Kenapa mereka tidak memberitahu saya? Mengapa bos restoran mengatakan semua personil telah dievakuasi?"
Seorang teman dari para mendiang mengatakan: "Ini sangat tragis, Miheala telah bekerja sebagai penari eksotis sejak remaja dan benar-benar berjuang untuk menjadi penari hebat.´
Seorang juru bicara pemadam kebakaran mengataan: "Ketika api padam, kami masuk ke dalam untuk menolong. Itu terjadi tiga jam kemudian, dan kami kemudian menemukan tiga mayat yang terbakar."
"Mereka terjebak di lantai atas yang berkobar api, dan sia-sia menunggu penyelamatan yang tidak pernah datang."
´Tidak ada yang memberitahu kami bahwa mereka berada di sana, dan saat api berkobar lantai kamar mereka runtuh, melemparkan mayat mereka ke restoran yang terbakar di bawah.´
Polisi mengkonfirmasi mereka sedang menyelidiki tuduhan bahwa restoran tidak menerapkan prosedur keselamatan yang tepat, karena tidak memiliki dokumen untuk orang-orang yang telah bekerja di sana.
THREE young women have burned to death in a club Romania after the owner neglected to tell firemen they were still inside.
Mihaela Tuca, 24, Nicoleta Vasiliteanu, 23, and 22-year-old Nicoleta Cengher all died after flames gutted a restaurant in the popular coastal town of Constanta where they were working illegally.
The trio had gone to the locker room upstairs when smoke started filling the venue in the early hours of Sunday, trapping them. Eventually the floor collapsed, dumping them on to the fire below.
A fourth dancer, 19-year-old Nicoleta Buirencu, was still dancing on stage when the blaze started and was pulled out alive, although she was badly burned.
George Karam, 60, owner of the Beirut Club in the popular seaside resort of Constanta just east of the capital Bucharest, fled together with guests and staff when the fire broke out.
Firemen believed the building had been evacuated, but when they searched the building three hours later after the fire had burned out, they discovered the bodies of the performers.
Mariana Szarkany, Nicoleta Cengher’s mother, said: ´That owner is an evil man. He counted his chefs, he counted his waiters, he counted his bartenders.
´Why did he not tell them about the other girls? Did he forget about them? Did he forgot about those who were the stars of the show and brought all the glamour?´
Nicoleta Vasiliteanu’s mother Maria added: ´They brought my girl´s body out and took her to the morgue.
´I saw the place burning, had I known my girl was upstairs, I would have gone through the fire for her! Why didn’t they tell me? Why did the boss say all the personnel had been evacuated?´
A friend of the girls said: ´It is so tragic, Miheala had been working as an exotic dancer since she was a teenager and really struggled to get some recognition.
A fire brigade spokesman confirmed: ´When the blaze was extinguished, we went inside to dampen it down. That was three hours later, and it was only then that we found the three badly burned bodies.
´They must have been trapped upstairs by the smoke, and probably waited in vain for rescue that never came.´
´Nobody told us they were there, and at some stage the floor of the room they were in collapsed, dumping their bodies into the burning restaurant below.´
Police confirmed they were investigating the allegations that the restaurant had not applied the proper safety procedures, and for not having the correct paperwork for the people they had working there.
