{"id":259981,"date":"2025-03-16T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T11:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/nightclub-fire-kills-at-least-51-in-north-macedonia\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T11:07:12","slug":"nightclub-fire-kills-at-least-51-in-north-macedonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/nightclub-fire-kills-at-least-51-in-north-macedonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightclub Fire Kills at Least 51 in North Macedonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/16\/world\/16xp-clubfire-macedonia-still\/16xp-clubfire-macedonia-still-facebookJumbo.png?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Nightclub Fire Kills at Least 51 in North Macedonia\" title=\"Nightclub Fire Kills at Least 51 in North Macedonia\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At least 51 people were killed and another 100 injured when a fire broke out overnight in a nightclub in North Macedonia, Marija Miteva, a government spokeswoman, said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The country\u2019s interior minister, Panche Toshkovski, told a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=539953668631163\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">news conference<\/a> that the blaze had broken out during a pop concert at the club in the eastern town of Kocani. He said that fireworks had been set off, causing the roof to catch fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a difficult and very sad day for Macedonia,\u201d North Macedonia\u2019s prime minister, Hristijan Mickoski, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MickoskiHM\/status\/1901187332843110592\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cThe loss of so many young lives is irreparable, and the pain of the families, loved ones and friends is immeasurable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Details of the blaze could not be independently confirmed. The town is about 50 miles east of the capital, Skopje.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The office of the government\u2019s public prosecutor <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/jorm.gov.mk\/soopshtenie-148\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in a brief statement<\/a> that officials in Kocani were still working to assess the number of victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Angela Aggeler, the American ambassador to the country, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USAmbNMacedonia\/status\/1901185205924479266?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>, \u201cMy heart breaks this morning for the many victims in last night\u2019s fire at a nightclub in Kochani.\u201d She added, \u201cThe loss of so many young lives in one community is a terrible tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Alisa Dogramadzieva<!-- --> contributed reporting from Belgrade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/16\/world\/europe\/north-macedonia-club-fire.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 51 people were killed and another 100 injured when a fire broke out overnight in a nightclub in North Macedonia, Marija Miteva, a government spokeswoman, said on Sunday. The country\u2019s interior minister, Panche Toshkovski, told a news conference that the blaze had broken out during a pop concert at the club in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/16\/world\/16xp-clubfire-macedonia-still\/16xp-clubfire-macedonia-still-facebookJumbo.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[183086,80,167650,4842,200503,19126,1358,200540],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259983,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259981\/revisions\/259983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}