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Woman dies in nursing home fire

One woman died in an apartment fire that broke out at a senior citizen facility in Enskede just south of Stockholm late Friday night.

Another person was taken to the hospital for injuries from smoke inhalation and five others were treated by emergency personnel on the scene, reports news agency TT.

The apartment that burnt was on the eleventh floor and spread to the floors above and below. All three floors were smoke-filled.

A fireman was injured in the hand during the rescue operation and was taken to the hospital, reports Newspaper Aftonbladet.

It is unclear what caused the fire that started just before 11.00pm Friday night. It took firemen an hour to put out the fire.

“Police investigators will start their work when they can enter the apartments,” Mats Kömer, rescue leader with the Stockholm Fire Department, told Aftonbladet.

Residents living on the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors were evacuated.

Police and firemen from two departments responded to the emergency and an ambulance helicopter was on the scene as well.

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Barcelona fire kills four, including two children

A fire ripped through an abandoned bank occupied by squatters in central Barcelona on Tuesday, killing four people, including a baby and a three year-old boy, Spanish firefighters said.

Police and firefighters gather outside an abandoned building where a blaze broke out early on November 30, 2021 in Barcelona, killing four people.
Police and firefighters gather outside an abandoned building where a blaze broke out early on November 30, 2021 in Barcelona, killing four people. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP)

“While we were battling the fire, we found four people. Emergency services tried to revive them but unfortunately they failed, they could not do anything to save them,” the head of the firefighting operation, Ángel López, told reporters.

Firefighters rescued four other people who were inside the building while putting out the blaze, he added.

Those four were treated for smoke inhalation.

Firefighters rushed to the scene at around 6 am after being warned that a blaze had broken out in the building, Mr Lopez said.

While Mr López said it was not clear how the four dead people were related, Barcelona-based daily newspaper La Vanguardia said they were all members of a Romanian family.

A spokesman for Catalonia’s regional police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, said an investigation had been opened into the causes of the fire.

In December 2020, four people were killed after a blaze ripped through an industrial complex occupied by squatters, many of them African migrants, near Barcelona.

Over 100 squatters were believed to be living in precarious conditions at the abandoned complex in Badalona, a suburban town north of the city.

In addition to the four deaths, more than 20 people were injured in the blaze.

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