Kocani disaster: the victims died of carbon monoxide poisoning

Forensics teams revealed the findings of the autopsies conducted on the 59 young victims of the Kocani nightclub disaster. In all of them, the cause of death was suffocation and poisoning with carbon monoxide, said Aleksandar Stankov, head of the state forensics bureau.

Stankov said that the victims were quickly overcome by carbon monoxide and in many cases its effects prevented them from fleeing.