MADRID (Reuters) - Fire ripped through a retirement home in the town of Villafranca del Ebro in northern Spain early on Friday 15 November 2024, killing at least ten people, the regional government of Aragon said.
The blaze started in a residence for elderly called "Jardines de Villafranca" around 05:00 (04:00 GMT) and it took a couple of hours for firefighters to put it out, a spokesperson for the regional government said.
The spokesperson could not specify whether all the victims were residents of the retirement home, where 82 elderly people lived.
One person was in a critical condition, while several people are under care mainly for suffering from smoke inhalation.
Firefighters, who came from the area of Zaragoza, a city 35 km away, ambulances and police are on site, he said. The cause of the fire was still being investigated.
