Polish officials have shut down 13 escape room sites over safety issues after five teenage girls were killed in a fire at one such venue. The girls died on Friday in an escape room at a private house in the city of Koszalin. Firefighters found the bodies of the 15-year-old victims after they extinguished a fire next to the locked room. Firefighter chief Leszek Suski said the escape room had no emergency evacuation route. Players in escape room games are locked inside a room or building and must solve puzzles and find clues that lead them to the key that will unlock the door.

Source: The Irish Times January 06, 2019 17:48 UTC