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Police have detained 15 people after a fire at an nightclub in North Macedonia killed at least 59 people, officials have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The blaze broke out around 02:30 local time (01:30 GMT) on Sunday at the Pulse club in Kocani, where about 500 people had gathered for a concert by DNK, a popular hip-hop duo in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only one member of the band survived and was being treated in hospital, a spokesman for the public prosecutors office told the BBC’s Newshour. In total, 155 were injured at the concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interior Minister Pance Toskovski said the detainees will be questioned, adding that there are “grounds for suspicion that there is bribery and corruption” linked to the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that the venue did not have a legal licence to operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The venue, in a town around 100km (60 miles) east of the capital, Skopje, has been described as an “improvised nightclub” in the local press, having previously been a carpet warehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Arsovska said there had been only “one efficient exit” in the building, as the venue’s back door was locked and could not be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first on-site inspections on Sunday had also showed several “abnormalities” in the venue. “There are deficiencies in the system for fire-extinguishing and the system for lightning,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Citing initial reports, Toskovski said the fire had been started by sparks from pyrotechnic devices that had hit the ceiling, which was made of highly flammable material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC: Police have detained 15 people after a fire at an nightclub in North Macedonia killed at least 59 people, officials have said. The blaze broke out around 02:30 local time (01:30 GMT) on Sunday at the Pulse club in Kocani, where about 500 people had gathered for a concert by DNK, a popular hip-hop duo in the country. Only one member of the band survived and was being treated in hospital, a spokesman for the public prosecutors office told the BBC’s Newshour. In total, 155 were injured at the concert. Interior Minister Pance Toskovski said the detainees will be… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45543,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541\/revisions\/45543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}