Incomprehensible carnage

340 killed in supermarket inferno in Ascuncion, Paraguay.

Death toll could reach 600 plus - and all because the security staff locked down the exits to keep customers from leaving without paying for their goods.

Orlando Correa, who lost his sixmonthold nephew in the fire and was searching for his sister's body at the scene, said: "There are no words for this." Police chief Humberto-Nunez said rescue workers had been unable to reach many people inside "because of the ruins and the danger of collapse."

There really aren't words for this.