‘I had one child and I lost him’

Marija Taseva was spending night with her sister at the Pulse Club in Cocani, North Macedonia, when a disaster occurred on Saturday.

They were watching DNK, a popular hip -hop duo in this country. When a fire occursAt least 59 were killed and 155 were injured.

“Everyone started screaming.” “He was 19 years old and told Reuters.

People tried to avoid flames desperately, but there were only one exit for about 500 people.

“I couldn’t stay, but I couldn’t go to the ground, and at that moment people started to hit me,” Taseva said.

She eventually reached safety, but her sister was not.

“My sister is dead. I was saved and she was not.”

The police detained 15 people and said Pence Toskovski, the Interior Minister, said that there is a suspicion of “bribery and corruption.”

Toskovski said the fire started on Sunday at 02:30 local time (01:30 GMT).

Toskovski, depicted as the “improvised nightclub” of the local media, was located in 100km (60 miles) village in Skopje, the capital, said Toskovski said.

Previously, it was a carpet warehouse and the police were investigating.

Kristina Serafimovska, head of the Kocani Hospital, told reporters that “most deaths were injured by stamps in panic.”

According to the AFP News Agency, “70 patients have burns and carbon monoxide poisoning.”

Vladislav Gruev, an expert in reconstruction and plastic surgery of the surgical disease university clinic, has been treating survivors.

“Most of them suffered a wide range of burns on the surface body area of ​​18%, the second and third -degree burns, the head, the neck, the torso and the upper limbs,” he said.

According to Sunday inspection, some “abnormal” appeared in the venue, including the “defect” of the fire department and lighting system.

Mustafa Sayov, a Red Cross volunteer, said that the majority of people who died when they spoke outside the hospital were young people.

“The situation is much worse where the victims are identified. You can see that parents are very young in their 40s. Children are 18 to 20 years old.”

“The situation is cruel and confused, the story is very sad and unfortunately many young people disappear.”

A man who was injured by a fire said that some people could not find their children.

Many people are angry and looking for answers, such as Dragi Stojanov, who lost the only child in the fire.

“I’ll tell you in front of everyone. Take me. I’m dead. I’ve lost everything … Europe should know,” he told reporters.

“After this tragedy, what do I need for this life? I do not need it.

“I had a child and lost him.”

President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova in North Macedonia said he needed a responsibility for what happened.

“This time, responsibility should not be avoided by law, justice and punishment,” she said.

“There is nothing more valuable than human life, especially young life.”

She was taken for the treatment of professional clinics in Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, and Türkiye, who were most seriously injured, she added.

The government has proclaimed seven -day national mourning and will hold an emergency session as part of a continuous investigation into how the case is developed.