WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials have shut down 13 escape room entertainment sites for safety flaws and the prime minister asked people Sunday to report such lapses to firefighters and police after five teenage girls were killed in a fire. 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. They were the first known deaths in an escape room, a form of entertainment that has been growing in Poland over the past five years. Firefighters found the victims’ bodies after they extinguished a fire next to the locked room. Police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk said other people had previously posted critical remarks online about the safety of that escape room site, but local officials weren’t notified.

Source: National Post January 06, 2019 11:49 UTC