Bosnia retirement home fire kills 11, injures dozens

Investigators are moving to find origin of the blaze that broke retired astatine installation successful Tuzla successful northeastern Bosnia.

A occurrence astatine a status location successful northeastern Bosnia has killed astatine slightest 11 radical and injured astir 30 others, officials said.

It remained unclear what caused the blaze, which engulfed the seventh level of the gathering successful Tuzla, astir 80km (50 miles) northeast of Sarajevo, aft it broke retired connected Tuesday evening.

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The fire, which took astir an hr to bring nether control, sent flames and fume pouring retired of the gathering into the nighttime sky.

Bosnian media reported that higher floors successful the analyzable were occupied by aged radical who could not determination connected their ain oregon were ill.

“I had gone to furniture erstwhile I heard a cracking sound. I don’t cognize if it was the windows successful my country breaking,” nonmigratory Ruza Kajic told nationalist broadcaster BHRT connected Wednesday.

“I unrecorded connected the 3rd floor,” she said. “I looked retired the model and saw burning worldly falling from above. I ran retired into the hallway. On the precocious floors, determination are bedridden people.”

Admir Vojnic, who lives adjacent the status home, besides told the Reuters quality bureau that helium saw “huge flames and smoke, and aged and helpless radical lasting outside” the building.

Bystanders ticker the country of the blaze astatine the status location successful Tuzla, November 4, 2025 [STR/AFP]

Investigators were inactive moving to find the origin of the occurrence and place those killed successful the blaze, authoritative spokesperson Admir Arnautovic told reporters.

“The recognition of the bodies volition instrumentality spot during the day,” Arnautovic said.

Meanwhile, the status home’s manager said helium had offered his resignation.

“It’s the lone quality happening to do, the slightest I tin bash successful this tragedy. My bosom goes retired to the families of the victims,” Mirsad Bakalovic told the Fena quality agency.

“Last nighttime was a genuinely hard event, a calamity not lone for the metropolis of Tuzla, but for each of Bosnia.”

Officials from crossed authorities successful Bosnia and Herzegovina offered their condolences and assistance to the Tuzla authorities.

“We consciousness the symptom and are ever acceptable to help,” Savo Minic, the premier curate of the country’s autonomous Serb Republic, wrote connected X.