"People were screaming 'there's a fire' but the security guards didn't budge and tried to keep the door shut," he told told Zero Hora newspaper. "Five or six people knocked over one security guard and knocked down the door. It was the only exit.
"The first people to get out tried to pull out whoever was still inside. Hands and arms appeared from the curtain of smoke. We pulled out various people. I pulled out a girl by the hair. It was chaos, the worst desperation."