Posted on 03/16/2025 7:16:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The blaze broke out around 02:30 (01:30 GMT) at the Pulse club in Kocani, a town around 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, Skopje, where 1,500 people were attending a concert by DNK, a popular hip-hop duo in the country.
Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski called it a "difficult and very sad day" for the country which had lost many "young lives."
Arrest warrants have been issued for four people, interior minister Pance Toskovski said at the scene, without giving any details. He announced the arrest of a man earlier and state news agency Mia said the club owner was detained.
Toskovski has also said that, according to initial reports, the fire had been started by sparks from pyrotechnic devices that had hit the ceiling, which was made of highly flammable material.
Footage shows the band playing on stage when two flares go off, sparks then catch fire on the ceiling before rapidly spreading.
Video verified by the BBC shows people trying to extinguish the flames on the ceiling.
It shows the club was still full and people appeared to be watching efforts to put out the fire, rather than leaving.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
BTTT
What country?!
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.
Source says “Notth Macedonia,” where ever that is.
Nightclub has the same name as the one where there was a mass shooting.
Probably just a coincidence....
Nightclubs seem to be death traps.
North Macedonia is between Serbia and Greece.
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
Thank you.
I believe that nothing good can emerge from “hip-hop”. QED.
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.
Duh! Never mind.
Macedonia. I was thinking it was a city .
***sigh***
Thanks.
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
Thanks.
Those obscure countries can sometimes be tough to figure out.
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.
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