Overview
- Flames broke out around 8:45 p.m. local time on the seventh floor of the nine-storey facility and spread across the top levels.
- About 30 people, including firefighters and medical staff, were treated at Tuzla University Clinical Centre, with several for carbon monoxide poisoning and some in intensive care.
- Emergency crews moved residents from upper floors to safer areas as many on higher levels were bedridden or had disabilities.
- The retirement home’s director, Mirsad Bakalovic, said he offered his resignation after the tragedy.
- Leaders across Bosnia offered condolences and assistance, and footage showed heavy smoke as firefighters brought the blaze under control in about an hour.