A fire at a nightclub within the city of Kocani in North Macedonia has killed 51 individuals and injured about 100 extra, in keeping with authorities. Here’s a have a look at another nightclub and music venue fires which have led to vital loss of life tolls:
— April 2024: A blaze on the Masquerade nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, trapped staff and staff whereas the venue was closed for renovations, leaving 29 individuals lifeless. It was situated on the bottom and basement flooring of a 16-story residential constructing.
— October 2023: A fireplace that began at a nightclub within the southeastern Spanish metropolis of Murcia and unfold to 2 different golf equipment left 13 individuals lifeless.
— January 2022: A nightclub in Sorong, in Indonesia’s West Papua province, burned after two teams attacked one another contained in the constructing. Nineteen individuals had been killed.
— January 2022: A blaze at Liv’s Nightclub Yaouba in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, set off explosions that killed 17 individuals. The federal government instructed that fireworks set the roof alight and the hearth then unfold to areas the place cooking fuel was saved.
— December 2016: Thirty-six individuals died in a fireplace at a warehouse in Oakland, California that had been transformed right into a residence and occasion area for artists dubbed the “Ghost Ship.” The blaze, which broke out throughout an digital music and dance celebration, moved so rapidly that victims had been trapped on the illegally constructed second ground.
— October 2015: A blaze that broke out throughout a rock model’s pyrotechnics show at the Colectiv nightclub in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, killed 64 individuals and left some 190 injured.
— January 2013: A fireplace killed greater than 200 individuals on the Kiss nightclub within the metropolis of Santa Maria in southern Brazil. Investigators stated soundproofing foam on the ceiling caught fireplace and launched toxic gases that rapidly killed these attending a college celebration.
— December 2009: Some 152 individuals died when a blaze broke out on the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia. It began when an indoor fireworks show ignited a plastic ceiling embellished with branches.
— January 2009: An indoor fireworks show after a New 12 months’s countdown ignited a blaze within the Santika membership in Bangkok, Thailand, killing 67 individuals and injuring many extra. Victims died from burns, smoke inhalation, and from being crushed.
— September 2008: A fireplace killed 44 individuals on the jammed King of Dancers nightclub in Shenzhen, China when a stamped broke out after a fireworks present ignited the ceiling.
— December 2004: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, a fireplace killed 194 individuals on the crowded Cromagnon Republic membership after a flare ignited ceiling foam. Membership proprietor Omar Chaban was sentenced to twenty years in jail for inflicting the lethal fireplace and for bribery. Others obtained lighter sentences.
— February 2003: A fireplace on the Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, in the US, killed 100 individuals and injured greater than 200 others. Fireworks being utilized by the band set fireplace to flammable foam contained in the membership.
— December 2000: A fireplace that was blamed on a welding accident killed 309 individuals at a disco within the central Chinese language metropolis of Luoyang.
— October 1998: An arson assault in opposition to an overcrowded youth disco within the Swedish metropolis Goteborg killed 63 individuals and left round 200 injured. 4 individuals had been later convicted for beginning the hearth.
— March 1996: A fireplace on the Ozone Disco Pub in Quezon Metropolis, Philippines, killed 162 individuals. A big proportion of the victims had been college students partying to mark the tip of the educational 12 months.
— March 1990: An arson assault on the Completely satisfied Land nightclub within the Bronx borough of New York Metropolis killed 87 individuals. It began when a person indignant along with his girlfriend threw gasoline on the membership’s solely exit and set it on fireplace, then jammed down the steel entrance gate so individuals had been trapped.
— December 1983: A fireplace on the Alcala dance corridor in Madrid, Spain, left 78 individuals lifeless and greater than 20 injured.
— Might 1977: A fireplace on the Beverly Hills Supper Membership in Southgate, Kentucky, killed 165 individuals and injured greater than 200.
— November 1942: The deadliest nightclub fireplace in U.S. historical past killed 492 individuals at Boston’s Cocoanut Grove membership. The hearth at what had been one in all Boston’s foremost nightspots led to new necessities for sprinkler techniques and accessible exits.
— April 1940: A fireplace ignited the ornamental Spanish moss draping the ceiling of the Rhythm Evening Membership in Natchez, Mississippi, killing 209 individuals. The home windows had been boarded as much as forestall individuals from sneaking in.
