ASUNCION (AFP) ??” A shopping center proprietor his son and four guards were indicted for manslaughter after allegedly locking the populaceed Asuncion store to prevent theft during a blaze that left 346 folks dead.

ASUNCION (AFP) ??” A shopping center proprietor his son and four guards were indicted for manslaughter after allegedly locking the populaceed Asuncion store to prevent theft during a blaze that left 346 folks dead, court sources said.

Juan Pio Paiva, who allowed the Yca Bolanos shopping center his son Daniel, and four security guards are formally accused of locking the doors "so no single would leave without paying," the sources said.

The charge sheet claims Daniel Paiva ordered security personnel to confine all exits, and helped them do in the same manner thereby preventing hundreds of clients from fleeing and "causing the death of more than 300 people"

"Children, women and men were consume ed to death or asphyxiated, and centurys more suffered severe burns," the document said.

Public prosecutor Edgar Sanchez quot united of the guards as telling investigators he had "heard athwart internal radio an order to stop up the exit doors."

Sanchez and