Tragic victims of the Valencia fire: Parents die alongside newborn baby and daughter, three, along with elderly couple who cowered with their dog in the bathroom are among ten confirmed dead
A family of four with two young children, including a newborn baby, and an elderly couple are among the 10 people who are confirmed to have died in a deadly blaze that consumed a block of flats in Valencia last night.
Firefighters and police, currently on the fourth floor of the 14-storey block of flats, slowly made their way up the apartment block in the upmarket Campanar neighbourhood of Valencia and have confirmed that ten is the final death toll of the deadly blaze.
The bodies of four people who died, spotted on terraces by firefighters who sent up a drone late last night, have not been identified and remain in the building, home to 138 flats and more than 400 residents.
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
Officials have today confirmed that a family, made up of a newborn baby, a three-year old girl and the mother and father, perished in the blaze.
El Diario Vasco reported that one of the children studied at the Sant Pau nursery school in the Campanar neighbourhood.
Photos show a black veil being hung up, a sign of mourning, outside the entrance of the school today, and it was reported that the Spanish Red Cross has sent emergency counsellors to the school.
An elderly couple, who have not yet been identified, are understood to have died in the blaze while cowering in their bathroom with their dog.
Authorities later said that the death toll has risen to ten, with a government spokesperson saying: 'The scientific police had 14 people unlocated. During the morning we have located four people, therefore we can say that those 10 people who remained unlocatable coincide with the bodies that have been found in the building and that are currently being transferred by those responsible.' read more..
Comments
Post a Comment