Recriminations fly after fire roars through Brazilian museum

By PETER PRENGAMAN and SARAH DiLORENZO
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Smoke rose Monday from the burned-out hulk of Brazil’s National Museum, as recriminations flew over who was responsible for a huge fire that destroyed of at least part of Latin America’s largest collection of historical artifacts and documents.
A few hundred protesters who gathered outside the museum gates tried several times to push into the site, demanding to see the damage and calling on the government to rebuild.