PHOTO | Last tribute to those killed in the fire in Kocani
In Kocani today, the last respects will be paid to the thirty young people who died in the fire at the Pulse nightclub.
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The city is silent, in the square there are citizens lighting candles and signing the book of condolences. Obituaries for the deceased can be seen on streetlights and trees.
People wearing black T-shirts with the words "Rest in peace, our angels" were walking through the city.
-A very sad day. Not only for Kocani, for all of Macedonia. 59 families were left without children, they are destroyed forever. Everyone is deeply traumatized. Kocani will never be the same. Normal life will never be the same. They should have done this much earlier. We are all to blame. We are to blame for voting for them for so many years. This is what that policy and laws have led us to. Kocani is destroyed. We hope that the ministers will sort something out, I don't see any particular fault in the security forces. It's too sad, it's too great a loss - says a citizen, who came to light a candle in the square.
The funeral ceremony in Kocani will be held at 12:XNUMX, and will be officiated by the head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church - Ohrid Archbishopric, His Holiness Stefan.
The funeral ceremony will be held according to special protocols, and a larger number of medical teams and drinking water will be deployed at and around the funeral sites.
Priests from Kocani will be standing at the entrance gate of the cemetery to let the parents and their loved ones pass. All other citizens are asked to remain outside the cemetery gates and pay their respects to the victims with dignity, without pushing or endangering their own safety or that of those present.
– After the funeral ceremony, but also in the following days, all bereaved citizens, gradually, one by one, will be able to go to the eternal resting places of the victims, to pray for their souls, to lay flowers, to light a candle – appealed this morning the director of the Crisis Management Center, Stojanche Angelov.
The fire at the Pulse discotheque killed 59 people and injured over 150.
