At least 59 people were murdered in a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia, according to officials, and 15 people have been arrested by police.
Around 500 people had gathered at the Pulse club in Kocani for a performance by DNK, a well-known hip-hop duo in the nation, when the fire started at 2:30 local time (01:30 GMT) on Sunday.
According to a public prosecutors office spokesperson who talked to the BBC's Newshour, only one band member made it out alive and was receiving medical attention in the hospital. At the concert, 155 people were hurt in total. Read More.......
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 over the weekend. Officials said that Club Pulse, the nightclub where the fire broke out early Sunday, was operating with an illegally…