Death toll from North Macedonia nightclub fire rises to 59

bbc ^ | 03/16/2025 | Rachel Hagan

[PGalt]

BTTT

[metmom]

What country?!

[BenLurkin]

I’m not sure if North Macedonia is a country at the moment or not. If so it’s not very big, I don’t think.

[madison10]

Source says “Notth Macedonia,” where ever that is.

[left that other site]

Nightclub has the same name as the one where there was a mass shooting.

Probably just a coincidence....

[ConservativeMind]

Nightclubs seem to be death traps.

[jimtorr]

North Macedonia is between Serbia and Greece.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Ever heard of that former country named Yugoslavia?

North Macedonia used to be part of it along with Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia

[madison10]

Thank you.

[smokingfrog]

Reminds me of this…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Moon_(Great_White_song)

[Tom Tetroxide]

Former Yugoslavia map. Where you see Macedonia is now known as North Macedonia.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Zooming out a little bit showing the countries around the Adriatic Sea.

[szweig]

I believe that nothing good can emerge from “hip-hop”. QED.

[ponygirl]

I have ancestors from Bohemia and I was in Czechoslovakia when the war broke out in Yugoslavia. I tried to understand it all, but have never seen anything more complicated than the history of Eastern Europe. The Prussian wars, the Austro-Hungarian empire, all the Slavic tribes…I don’t know how they keep it all straight.

[metmom]

Duh! Never mind.

Macedonia. I was thinking it was a city .

***sigh***

[metmom]

Thanks.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Keep in mind that a similar event happened with the Station nightclub fire where the ‘80s pop rock band, Great White, was playing that night and 100 died with 230 injured in 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire

Great White & The Station Nightclub Fire Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ky5ZpL-F_0

Inside the Station Nightclub Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a242xYyGJWg

The Station Nightclub Fire WARNING Graphic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO0ioCCiEe8

[metmom]

Thanks.

Those obscure countries can sometimes be tough to figure out.

[packagingguy]

I’ll relay what a taxi driver told me when two of us engineers were at one of our manufacturing sites.

The guy had an accent and when we asked where he was from he said Kosovo. He fled because his village was completely destroyed.

He said people got along just fine until politicians started turning ethnic groups against each other.

Then once small groups of people started initiating violence the whole conflagration started.