
Two boys of Chinese origin, aged three and five, have died in an apartment fire in Zaragoza in eastern Spain, Spanish media reported.
The children´s grandmother and father were injured in the blaze while their mother escaped unharmed, public radio RNE reported citing local officials.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused the fire to break out [...]

Two teenagers who confessed to killing an East Riding grandfather in Tenerife could be released in five years.
The news emerged as Peter Cockshutt´s body was finally flown home to East Yorkshire yesterday, to the relief of his wife and five children.
Mr Cockshutt, of Brandesburton, near Hornsea, was stabbed to death in an apparent bungled burglary [...]
February 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Two people died after jumping out of the windows of the Hotel Normandía in the tiny Pyrenean state of Andorra this morning after a fire broke out there in the early hours.
According to local media reports, the fire started in the hotel´s reception and quickly spread to other parts of the hotel in the capital, [...]
February 26, 2010 | Posted in
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DERMOT McArdle has been given a ultimatum by Spanish authorities to hand himself in by next Thursday March 4th.
The Dundalk man who was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Kelly Ann Corcoran in Marbella 10 years ago, last week lodged an appeal against a ruling by a Spanish judge that he should now serve [...]
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A British couple was killed in the collapse of a country house, apparently caused by heavy rains, in southern Spain, local officials said Tuesday. The man and woman, aged 64 and 63 respectively, were visiting another British couple when the room they were in collapsed in Rubite near Granada on Monday, emergency services said.
The owner [...]
February 23, 2010 | Posted in
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Lita Broadhurst, 48, threw herself off a fourth floor balcony on Friday morning after leaving an apparent suicide note for her teenage children on her Facebook homepage.
The expat English teacher, who lived in Garrucha near Almeria on Spain´s southern coast, blamed a British associate as the source of her misery.
She jumped to her death hours [...]
February 10, 2010 | Posted in
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Peter Cockshutt, 71, was found dead in a pool of blood at his Spanish villa near the popular resort of Playa de las Americas on Monday afternoon.
He had been stabbed twice in the chest and once in the leg in a frenzied attack. Local police believe he may have disturbed burglars at his home based [...]
February 10, 2010 | Posted in
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Six people were killed and 10 injured, including one seriously, when a fire broke out at a retirement home in Spain’s southern city of Seville.
The fire broke out around midnight on Monday in a third-storey apartment and spread throughout the building before being put out by firefighters.
Three women and two men were among the dead, [...]
February 9, 2010 | Posted in
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