At least ten people died early Friday morning in a fire that engulfed a facility for the elderly in the northern Spanish town of Villafranca del Ebro. This was announced by the regional government in Aragon, reports TASR based on a Reuters report.
The fire broke out in an establishment called Jardines de Villafranca around 05:00 in the morning. It took firefighters several hours to extinguish the flames. announced the spokesperson of the regional government. At the same time, the spokesman was unable to specify whether the victims included only residents of the center for seniors, in which 82 people lived. One person was in critical condition, while several people were being treated by paramedics.
Firefighters who came from the city of Zaragoza, 35 kilometers away, paramedics and the police intervened on the spot, the spokesperson specified. The cause of the fire is not immediately known.
