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Accident may have been caused by the use of fireworks inside the space. In the place was a concert with 1500 people watching, especially young people.
At least 51 people died and more than 100 were injured At dawn on Sunday in a fire in a disco in Kocani, North Macedonia, local media reports.
Kocani is in the east of the country, about 100 kilometers from the capital Skopje. In the disco, “About 1,500 people watched a concert“, Reports the official agency Mia, citing the Interior Ministry.
According to the agency, the fire destroyed the “Pulse” disco in 30,000 inhabitants, during a DNK concert, a very popular hip hop band in the country.
The public at the concert, which began at midnight, was composed mostly for young peoplesays the same source.
According to the SDK informative website, the fire started at 03:00 (02:00 in Lisbon).
O fire will have been caused by pyrotechnicaccording to the media.
Videos published on social networks and filmed before the fire show a type of fire-to-arts used indoors During the concerts.
SDK says that “more than one hundred young people were injured,” citing the Civil Protection direction and the Crisis Management Center.
The injured were taken to hospitals in Kocani, STIP, thirty kilometers south of Kocani, and Skopje, adds the site.
According to the newspaper, the interior minister, Panche Toshkovski, said that A man was arrested, without specifying what was suspicious.
“At this time, the most important thing is to determine all the facts and what happened,” said Toshkovski.
