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Demonstrators react during a protest in Kocani on March 17, 2025, a day after a fire tore through an overcrowded nightclub packed with mostly young people in North Macedonia, killing 59 revellers. A fire tore through an overcrowded nightclub after on-stage fireworks at a hip-hop concert set the venue ablaze, authorities said. Some 155 people who were injured, 22 of them in critical condition, officials said. The club had reportedly breached several fire regulations, including having insufficient extinguishers and emergency exits. The club did not have a licence to use fireworks and did not have required safety vehicles parked outside. (Photo by Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP)