A police officer was killed and another injured during an attempted bank robbery in Galicia in northwest Spain, police said today.
Shots were fired early today between a police patrol and two bank robbers, who were trying to break into a branch of the Caixa Galicia bank in Caniza, in Pontevedra province, a police spokesman said.
One [...]

A bacterial disease has killed more than 100 deer in northern Spain, officials said yesterday.
The bodies of the animals were found on hunting grounds in the provinces of Zamora and Leon. They had died of pasteurellosis, which affects the respiratory organs of animals, the sources said.
Opposition representatives put the number of dead deer at more [...]

Flooding sparked by heavy rains has killed three people in the southern Spanish province of Cordoba, police said today.
Two of the victims were travelling in a four-wheel drive vehicle which was swept away by floods near Aguilar de la Frontera overnight. The bodies of the man and woman were found this morning.
The third person, a [...]

Flooding sparked by heavy rains has killed three people in the southern Spanish province of Cordoba, police said Tuesday.

Two of the victims were travelling in a four-wheel drive vehicle which was swept away by floods near Aguilar de la Frontera overnight. The bodies of the man and woman were found Tuesday morning.
The third person, a [...]

A would-be illegal immigrant drowned and seven others are missing after their small boat capsized off eastern Spain, maritime rescue services said today.
Ten immigrants of Algerian origin were on the boat that sank Wednesday off the tiny Spanish island of Tabarca, near the eastern city of Alicante, sources in the maritime rescue service said.
Two of [...]

Two people died and another was injured in a fire on Wednesday at the Huelva refinery in Spain run by oil firm Cepsa, a company official said.
The official was unable to say whether production had been affected at the refinery in southeast Spain, which normally processes about 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
“The fire [...]

A Dublin father-of-two was gunned down in Spain because of a row over a toilet.
Dad John´Jock´O´Neill (41) was murdered after a bust up in a bar on the Costa del Sol.
It is believed an argument started in the toilets of Coco´s pub when a British man began banging on the door of a locked cubicle.
The [...]

An alleged paedophile, formerly of North Shields, whose wife is accused of murdering their two children in a Spanish hotel is to appear in court.
Martin Smith, 45, is accused of a string of sex offences and failing to answer to bail.
His daughter Rebecca, five, and son Daniel, 11 months, were found dead in the Hotel [...]