Horrible images; Investigation initiated; Bodies sent for autopsy PHOTO

The fire broke out due to the use of pyrotechnics, more than 20 people have been questioned so far, and the prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for 11 of them.

The condition of the injured who were transferred to the VMA known

Serbian medical teams treated more than ten people who were seriously injured in the fire at the Puls night club in Kočani. During yesterday afternoon and evening, they were transferred to hospitals in Belgrade by ambulances and a plane of the Serbian Army, they were placed at the VMA and the Clinical Center of Serbia.

As Telegraf.rs learns, all patients who are placed at the VMA are in the shock room. Five of them were intubated. According to unofficial information, there are five young men and one girl.

The young men are between the ages of 18 and 27 and their burns covered up to 30 percent of their skin. The girl who was transferred to VMA is 18 years old and her burns covered 24 percent of her skin. What our doctors will do next is to first stabilize them hemodynamically, and then follow daily bandages, and the fight against contractures. This is followed by covering with skin grafts.

All bodies arrived at the Institute for autopsy

The bodies of all 59 victims of the fire were transported to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Skopje, where an autopsy is being performed to determine the exact cause of death.

"We are working in stages, as quickly as possible, so that the relatives can take over the bodies of the victims," ​​said the director of the Institute, Aleksandar Stankovski.

Yesterday, after brief tensions in front of the hospital in Kočani, the bodies were transported to Skopje. The results of the autopsy will be used for the further prosecution of the suspects or those accused of the incident.

A new problem for hospitals in Macedonia: "New patients are being admitted"

The Minister of Health of North Macedonia, Arben Taravari, announced this morning the latest information on the condition of those injured in the fire at the Puls night club in Kočani and revealed that hospitals are now facing a new problem.

"Fortunately, all the patients who were brought to the hospitals are in a stable condition, as well as those who were transferred for treatment abroad. But, there is a new problem. The patients who did not register yesterday today are coming to ask for help. I am asking everyone who was in the night club to call immediately and come for an examination," Taravari said.

The minister said that a new strategy has been applied since yesterday and that all patients from Kočani and Štip are being accepted, as there is capacity in Skopje.

"Now all the patients are in Skopje, we no longer have any in Štip and Kočani. This morning, two people called in Štip," said the minister.

He explained that there are 49 people in the Clinical Center, 17 in the "8 September" hospital, 17 in the old city hospital, two new patients were registered in Štip, who were not registered at all yesterday.

"They were sent abroad - nine people to Turkey, 14 patients to Bulgaria, five to Thessaloniki, 17 to Serbia, two to Budapest..." said the minister.

Jovanović: The embassy has no information that there were Serbian citizens among the victims

Serbian Ambassador to North Macedonia Nevena Jovanović said today that the Serbian Embassy in Skopje has no information that there were Serbian citizens among the victims in Kočani.

She told TVK1 that according to current information, the number of victims is 59 and the number of minor and serious injuries is 155, but that these numbers are not final and that it will take a few more days to establish the exact number of victims.

According to her, Serbia has offered all available help to North Macedonia, and since Sunday joint efforts have been underway to provide that country with all possible support and solidarity that it desperately needs at this moment.

"We managed to transfer a certain number of patients for treatment to Serbia with a military plane of the Republic of Serbia. We will almost certainly have to repeat these actions today, but we all stand together at the disposal of the fraternal Macedonian people, all the citizens of North Macedonia, because this is truly an unprecedented tragedy that has hit that country," she said.