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Guy Delauney

BBC Balkan correspondent

Reuters Street Demonstrant in Kocani - Mostly Women - holding wardrobes and banner, angry at a nightclub fired 59 on the weekendReuters

North Macedonia began a week of mourning

Thousands protested in the North Macedonian city of Kocani, demanding justice and action against corruption after the fire nightclub killed 59 people, many of them teenagers.

“No one should die – Nobody,” said a teenager boy for the BBC. “These kids had the future, they had talents.”

The Pulsa Night Club was crowded with fans watching the DNA, a popular hip-hop band, when sparks from Balar seemingly set the ceiling ablaze cloth.

About 20 people for testing in disasters were discovered, including the owner of the nightclub and some former government minister.

Many in Kocani believe that corruption has enabled an improvised place of work with inadequate security measures.

Children who are still missing, are waiting outside the hospital to help DNA samples in identification.

Kocani, a city of about 25,000 people, is located about 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, Skopje.

More than 160 people were injured in the flame, including 45 suffering very serious injuries. Many of them flew into hospitals in neighboring Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Turkey for specialist treatment.

At the protest expensive, Uncle 19-year old man who died said “those scenes should never be repeated.”

“When there was war here, it wasn’t that bad. So many young people died.”

After a long time standing in silence, the crowd began to sing “We are looking for justice!”

The grieving candles, hugged and cried, and wrote sympathies in the central square.

A group of teenagers aimed a bar, breaking the windows and skipped it, believing that it belonged to the owner of the pulse club.

Reuters Youths break windows and wrecks bar in KocaniReuters

Young people attacked the bar saying to belong to the owner of the pulse

Deadly fire started at 02:30 local time (01:30 GMT) on Sunday and expands quickly as the ceiling of flammable material, said Interior Minister Pance.

He said there was a “basis for suspicion that bribery and corruption” is associated with fire.

At that time, there were 500 people in the spot, well over a capacity for 250 cards sold, he said.

Officials say the club license was illegally obtained and the place was a converted carpet warehouse, whose individual emergency exit was locked at the time.

There were only two fire extinguishers and no fireball system or sprayer, said State Prosecutor Ljupco Kočevski.

The civic group in the north of Macedonia invited people across the country to gather in city centers on Tuesday.

2025-03-17 17:46:00

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