The firefighters of the Madrid City Council and the Canine Units of the National Police have located on Monday the lifeless body of a second person among the debris of the building affected by the explosion registered last Saturday on Manuel Maroto street, in the district of Puente de Vallecas.
The search was reactivated after 3:00 p.m. after the presentation of a complaint for disappearance before the National Police. According to Madrid emergencies, the teams – with support of the Canine Fire and Police units – located man under a very compacted debris zone inside the bar where deflagration occurred.
The explosion took place around 3:00 p.m. on Saturday and affected the bar on the ground floor and the housing building on top. In a first balance the authorities had counted 25 injured and a deceased; With this finding the number of fatalities amounts to two.
This Saturday a powerful gas explosion shook a bar and the housing block of Manuel Maroto Street, in Puente de Vallecas, causing at least two deceased and 25 injured, three of them serious and two potentially serious, and forcing the eviction of the nine homes of the building for structural damage. The Firefighters of the City Council, together with, the police and canine units, work on the tasks of de -stress and search; The deflagration demolished part of the commercial bass and damaged the forged between the ground floor and first, so the authorities study the reality of the neighbors. Although the equipment points to a gas explosion, firefighters have insisted that the type of gas or the exact point of origin and expert research is still open.
