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 [...]
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, [...]
At least five workers were injured Tuesday when the railway tunnel they were building caught fire near Oviedo in northern Spain, emergency services said.
The 2.5-kilometre tunnel is to form part of a high-speed rail line linking Madrid with the region of Asturias.
The lining of the tunnel caught fire for reasons which were not immediately known.
Five [...]
Four people died while trying to escape a blazing apartment building in Spain´s second-largest city, Barcelona, officials said Thursday.
Ricard Goma, acting mayor of the northeastern port city, said a woman of Peruvian nationality, her son and daughter and a Spanish woman who was married to her son, died on stairs after being trapped by flames [...]
Four people have were killed on Sunday night by a building collapse in Palma de Mallorca.
The three story building on the corner of Calle Rodríguez Arias and Calle Alós, came down after midnight on Sunday night, and the search continues for more possible victims.
Local press has reported as many as nine people trapped. Emergency services [...]
Agents of the National Police arrested a 53 year old man in Elche (Alicante) on Monday, after he allegedly sprayed his wife with alcohol, in front of their two children, and then threatening to set her on fire, according to sources from the Provincial Police Station in Alicante.
The incident occurred around 17:45 on Monday, in [...]
For 22-year-old Cristian Garcia the split with his girlfriend was devastating. Her love letters to him were proof of a passion that had since died, so he took them to a skip near her home in Valencia, set them on fire and drove off. Three years later Garcia has lost a lot more than his [...]
An explosion at a fireworks display in Teror (Gran Canaria) has resulted in one person being killed and another suffering burns, according to sources of the Center for Emergency and Security Coordinator (Cecoes).
It is believed that more people may be trapped inside the building and fears are growing that they too may have perished.
The blast, [...]