Fire broke out at hip-hop concert attended by about 1,500 people in town of Kočani, state news agency says
At least 50 people have been killed in a fire that broke out at a nightclub in North Macedonia where more than a thousand had gathered for a concert, the state news agency MIA reported.
Citing the interior ministry, MIA said “at least 50 people died in a discotheque in Kočani”, a town about 60 miles (100km) east of the capital, Skopje, where “around 1,500 people attended a concert”. AFP could not immediately confirm this information with the Balkan state’s authorities.
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