at least seven people die in nightclub fire in southeastern Spain

At least seven people died on the morning of Sunday October 1 in a fire at a nightclub in Murcia (Spain), emergency services announced on X (formerly Twitter). Four people are also injured. Warned around six in the morning that a fire had broken out in a nightclub located in the Atalayas district, emergency services warned that the toll could rise as the hours passed. They were able to enter the nightclub around 10 a.m. “once the fire is out”and then discovered “four corpses”then two more about forty minutes later.

An hour later, Murcia town hall declared that the death toll now stood at seven and that reconnaissance work was continuing. “Priority is given to locating the bodies” in the building, detailed a spokesperson for the national police. “The scientific police and firefighters continue to locate the possible missing people, because there was a birthday last night and not all the participants have been found,” she continued, before adding that the investigation had not yet started “since the balance sheet [n’était] not established”. “Therefore, there is no preferred avenue at this time,” she added.

According to the photos released by the emergency services, it is the Teatre nightclub, also called “Fonda Milagros”, whose front, which was yellow and red, was devoured by the flames. The photos show the water hoses of fire trucks still spraying the blackened facade in a street invaded by emergency vehicles and thick smoke escaping from the roof of the nightclub. According to the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, who declared three days of mourning in memory of the victims, the fire mobilized 12 emergency vehicles, 40 firefighters, as well as around twenty police officers.