{"id":260719,"date":"2025-03-17T16:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/in-north-macedonia-officials-investigate-lapses-in-deadly-nightclub-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:32:05","slug":"in-north-macedonia-officials-investigate-lapses-in-deadly-nightclub-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/in-north-macedonia-officials-investigate-lapses-in-deadly-nightclub-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"In North Macedonia, Officials Investigate Lapses in Deadly Nightclub Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As families of victims mourned the loss of loved ones and kept an anxious vigil in hospitals on Monday, the authorities in North Macedonia said they were investigating possible official misconduct in the case of a deadly inferno that killed at least 59 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Officials said that Club Pulse, the nightclub where the fire broke out early Sunday, was operating with an illegally issued license document, and that it lacked proper escape routes. The building\u2019s roof was set ablaze by fireworks used during a concert, officials have said. At least 155 people were injured in the inferno that swept through the venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will have no mercy,\u201d Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said<\/a> on Sunday, adding, \u201cThere is no person in Macedonia who is not broken and with a destroyed spirit after this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Mickoski, who took power in June, said the club, which was in Kocani, about 50 miles east of the capital, Skopje, had a license document that had been issued \u201cfor a bribe.\u201d He said the document bore the seal of the economic ministry and the signatures of former officials there, and that it was \u201cissued illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n