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News Topical, Digital Desk : A fire broke out in an apartment in northeastern Spain. According to regional emergency services, five people were killed and five others injured.
Authorities announced the incident late Monday, February 16. Catalonia police said the five people who died were young and did not live in the building.
Five people died in a fire in Spain
The fire broke out in a storage room of a five-story apartment block in Manlleu, a town of 21,000 north of Barcelona, Catalonia regional authorities said in a statement.
Officials say the cause of the fire is not yet known. It's also unclear why people were unable to escape the storage room. The bodies were so badly burned that they have yet to be identified.
Catalonia's regional leader, Salvador Illa, expressed his condolences to the victims and their families on Christmas Day, expressing his sadness at the deaths of five people.
Emergency services said Tuesday that four of the injured were later discharged from hospital. One person did not require hospitalization. Catalan police have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire.
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