(18 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kočani, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
1. Various exteriors of damaged nightclub following fire
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Skopje, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Macedonian) Hristijan Mickoski, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister:
"So this is something I can say today, if I could turn time a few years back somehow, everything would have been okay. But unfortunately I can’t. What I can do now, as prime minister, and I did it yesterday and I’m doing it today, is (deliver) robust action, robust control, a severe control (of all night clubs) and all of those who are not operating by law will be closed and punished."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kočani, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
3. Mid of hospital
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Skopje, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (Macedonian) Hristijan Mickoski, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister:
"Here it’s not a problem that someone has political protection. This is pure crime. It is a devastated system. Those are individuals who think they are above the system. That is the problem. And today, those are in jail. And they will be held responsible. And there will be no limit on jail penalty. I call upon the prosecutor to ask for a maximum of 20 years. Will that bring the lives back? No, it will not. Can we bring those lives back? No, we can’t. But this is a warning. This thing can never happen again.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kočani, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
5. Mid of hospital
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Skopje, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (Macedonian) Hristijan Mickoski, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister:
"All of us hold a part of responsibility. I call upon common sense. I beg you for common sense. We will not get justice with anarchy and injustice. I understand there is revolt. I understand everything. I can take everything. I was there that morning, I know how I felt when I saw the scene.”
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Kočani, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
7. Mid of hospital
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Skopje, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (Macedonian) Sinisa Spasovski, head of Skopje hospital:
“The patients that we received are mostly patients with burns. Burns of second and some of them third degree. It is consistent with exposure to fire. The burns are usually spread on heads and fists. I assume it was the roof that caught fire first, so they were probably trying to protect their heads with their hands from falling fire debris. Other types of injuries that are causing difficult and serious conditions are cases of people inhaling hot air and poisonous gas as the building material was burning. And the third type of injuries are those which occurred as a typical battle for life. Patients were running over each other trying to escape and some sustained trauma injuries in the form of broken bones and bruises.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kočani, North Macedonia – 18 March 2025
9. Mid of damaged roof
STORYLINE:
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister, Hristijan Mickoski, on Tuesday stressed the government was launching a "robust" operation on nightclub owners in the country following a devastating fire over the weekend which saw 59 people killed and more than 150 injured.
The government has ordered nationwide inspections of all nightclubs and other entertainment venues following the blaze in Kocani early Sunday.
"If I could turn time a few years back somehow, everything would have been okay. But unfortunately I can’t," Mickoski said following a visit to a hospital in the capital, Skopje, where some of the injured were being treated.
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