The origin of the fire is unknown and at least four people were injured.
At least thirteen people died in a nightclub fire in Murcia, Spain, on Sunday morning, October 1, emergency services said on X (formerly Twitter), with the death toll continuing to rise over time. Four people are also injured. When they were informed around 6 a.m. that a fire had broken out in a nightclub in Atalayas district, they were able to enter the nightclub around 10 a.m. “after the fire was extinguished.”
“The search for the bodies in the building has priority,” said a state police spokesman. “The scientific police and the fire department continue to search for the possible missing people, since there was a birthday last night and not all participants have been found,” she continued, adding that the investigation had not yet begun “since the balance sheet”. [n’était] “Therefore, there is currently no preferred lead” to the origin of the fire, she added.
The mayor orders three days of mourning
“According to initial information, the fire broke out on the first floor of the nightclub, which consists of a ground floor and a first floor, and that is where the fire appears to have originated,” explained Diego Seral on Radio Onda Regional de Murcia, the local spokesman for the national Police. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed on
According to the photos published by the emergency services, it is the Teatre nightclub, also called “Fonda Milagros”, whose yellow and red facade was engulfed in flames. Photos show fire truck hoses still spraying the blackened facade of a street flooded with emergency vehicles and thick smoke pouring from the nightclub’s roof. According to the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, the declared three days of mourning To commemorate the victims, the fire mobilized twelve emergency vehicles, 40 firefighters and around twenty police officers.