SKOPJE – A massive nightclub fire killed 51 people early Sunday in North Macedonia ’s eastern town of Kocani, and injured more than 100, ABC News channel quoted Macedonian Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski as saying.
The blaze broke out around 2:35 a.m. during a concert by a local pop group at the Pulse nightclub, according to Toshkovski.
He said pyrotechnics caused the roof to catch fire. Videos showed chaos inside the club, with young people running through the smoke as the musicians urged people to escape as quickly as possible.
