Skopje: A nightclub fire in northern Macedonia during the weekend, left at least 59 people dead and injured.
Here is a quick group of what happened.
Where happened the fire?
The fire started after a crowd of young fans at the club club in the eastern town of Kocani to attend a concert from the famous rap group DNK.
Four members of the band died in Blaze, a singer, guitarist, drummer and backup singer. The other DNK singer was injured.
The CLB PULSE Instagram account said that the place regularly hosted by the offers attended by hundreds of people who flourish in the place, which had a dancing circuit and two small honor.
How did you start?
Based on the video published online and data from officials, fire was set by fireworks used on the stage during the performance.
“I probably spark the ceiling, which was made of a very flammable material, then in a very short time, the fire spread in a nightclub,” Interior Minister Pan Tuskovsky told a press conference on Sunday.
Local media quoted people in the club as saying that the fire broke out at about 02:30 (01:30 GMT) on Sunday morning.
Who are the victims?
By Sunday evening, 35 bodies were identified.
The victims seemed mostly youth, as well as a police officer who was in service.
Twenty of the injured and three of the deceased were minors.
Kristina Seravimovska, director of Kokani Hospital, said that the victims who brought to her facility ranged between 14 and 25 years.
Where does the investigation stand?
The authorities said that they were investigating whether “corruption” and “bribery” were linked to the accident.
A nightclub had no license, according to the Ministry of Interior.
Toskovsi said more than 20 people were under investigation. Among them, he was 15 already in the police custody and was others in the hospital.
The list of suspects includes the club owner, the event organizer and the people responsible for security.
He was the head of the former rescue services and the state secretary at the Ministry of Economy among the detainees.
The Prosecutor’s Office requested preventive detention measures for eight of them.
She said that the club has violated many firefighting regulations, including insufficient extinguishers and outside the emergency.
The club had no license to use fireworks and did not request parked safety cars abroad.
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