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This sex is on fire: Love-cheat Italians leave car in flames

A passionate affair between an Italian couple who were cheating on their spouses reached an embarrassing climax a few nights ago.

Published: 14 March 2016 10:55 CET
This sex is on fire: Love-cheat Italians leave car in flames
The pair met for their car tryst by the square in Gubbio, Umbria. Photo: Matteo Alessandrini

The pair had arranged their car tryst by a square in the Umbrian town of Gubbio.

But, feeling a little cold despite the sparks between them, they put the car heater on, Corriere del’Umbria reported.

Perhaps the passion got too much for the heater too – the fan short-circuited, causing a fire inside the car.

The lovers were forced to flee the vehicle and call the fire brigade.

In an attempt to cover their tracks, they tried to claim that the car had been stolen and deliberately set alight.

But the police didn't buy it and the pair were reported to the local prosecutor. They now face charges for creating a false public alarm.
 

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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.

Published: 30 November 2021 10:41 CET
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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