The origin of the fire is not known and at least four people are injured.
At least thirteen 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), in a death toll that continues to rise. over time. Four people are also injured. Warned around six a.m. that a fire had broken out in a nightclub located in the Atalayas district, they were able to enter the nightclub around 10 a.m. “once the fire is out”.
“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 the moment” on the origin of the fire, she added.
The mayor decrees three days of mourning
“According to initial reports, the fire broke out on the first floor of the nightclub, which has a ground floor and a first floor, and that is where the fire appears to have started”, Diego Seral, the local spokesperson for the national police, explained on Onda Regional de Murcia radio. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed his full “affection” and his “solidarity with the victims and relatives of the tragic fire that occurred at uabe in a nightclub in Murcia” on X.
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.