About 148 people were hospitalised in Skopje, Kocani and surrounding towns, Health Minister Arben Taravari said at a press conference. Eighteen people were critically injured, Taravari said.

About 148 people were hospitalised in Skopje, Kocani and surrounding towns, Health Minister Arben Taravari said at a press conference. Eighteen people were critically injured, Taravari said.

Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski told a press conference "at least 50 people died in a discotheque in Kocani", a town some 100 kilometres east of the capital Skopje. Mr Toshkovski said "around ...

The blaze erupted around 2:30 am (01.30GMT) at the Pulse club in Kocani, a town about 60 miles east of the capital, Skopje, BBC reports. A devastating nightclub fire in North Macedonia has claimed ...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — A massive fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia’s eastern town of Kocani early Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 155, authorities said. The blaze ...

Broadcaster MRT reported that 27 people were being treated for severe burns at Skopje City Hospital, with another 23 at the Clinical Centre. "It's my only child and he died," he told reporters at ...

And it has now been revealed one of those who sadly died was FC Skopje star Andrej Lazarov. "Heroic" Lazarov - who joined the club in September - is understood to have suffered smoke poisoning as ...

Silent protests against corruption were held Monday in Kocani, joined by thousands of residents and separately by university students in Skopje. “Justice is expected, that is what we all expect ...

According to witnesses, several people were subsequently crushed to death during a 'stampede', Skopje-based radio station Lider reported. The wounded were transported to the local hospital in ...

A fire broke out at the Pulse club in Kocani, 100 kilometres east of the capital Skopje, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Around 1,500 people were attending a concert at the nightclub when ...

Throughout Sunday, relatives gathered in front of hospitals and city offices in Kocani, some 115 kilometers (72 miles) east of the capital, Skopje, begging authorities for more information.

Police secure the area around the Pulse nightclub after the fire in Kocani, 17 March 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI. A court in North Macedonia on Monday night ordered former Economy ...