Fire kills at least 10 people in Spanish retirement home

At slightest 10 radical were killed aft a occurrence broke retired successful a status location successful the bluish Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro aboriginal Friday, authorities said.

The blaze started successful 1 of the rooms, Fernando Beltran, the nationalist government's apical authoritative successful Aragon region, told reporters.

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All the victims were aged radical surviving successful the Jardines de Villafranca residence, a attraction location for radical with mental wellness issues, Aragon determination president Jorge Azcon told reporters.

One idiosyncratic was successful a captious information and different was successful a superior condition, Azcon said.

Members of the criminalistics portion of the Spanish civilian defender enactment astatine the nursing location that caught occurrence aboriginal connected Friday, sidesplitting respective people, according to the determination authorities of Aragon, successful Villafranca de Ebro, Spain, Friday.  (Reuters/Pablo Ibanez)

The occurrence started astatine astir 5 a.m. section time, and it took astir 2 hours for firefighters to extinguish it, a spokesperson for the determination authorities said.

Firefighter main Eduardo Sanchez told reporters the occurrence was contained to the country wherever it started and that the fatalities were caused by fume inhalation.

"The doors were closed, they prevented the occurrence from spreading. The calamity could person been worse," Azcon said aft visiting the building.

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Several residents were treated, chiefly for fume inhalation, politician Volga Ramirez said.

Authorities person opened an probe into the origin of the fire.

Azcon said the precedence present was to transportation the residents who were not injured successful the blaze to different attraction location successful adjacent Huesca.