At least 10 elderly people were killed as a result of a fire at a retirement home in northern Spain, a media report said on Saturday.
Reuters reported: “At least 10 people were killed after a fire broke out in a retirement home in the northern Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro early on Friday”.
About 82 people live in the retirement home, but the rest were rescued by police, the report added.
A number of inmates suffered superficial wounds in the incident and were evacuated to hospital. Officials are yet to give the cause of the blaze.
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