Hip-hop gig blaze kills 51 at North Macedonia nightclub

A fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia early Sunday, killing 59 people, apparently after on-stage fireworks set the place ablaze, authorities said, announcing arrest warrants for four people. They said 155 injured people had been taken to hospitals across the country, 18 of them in critical condition.

Some of the serious cases were to be taken to other European countries for treatment. The blaze started in the Club Pulse in the eastern town of Kocani around 3AM Local Time, as the place was packed with more than 1,000 mostly young fans attending a concert by a popular hip-hop duo called DNK.