2 killed, many injured as blaze hits building in Spain

The fire in Badalona, a suburban town of 200,000 north of Barcelona, also injured at least 18 people, including three who are in very critical condition, authorities said.

Badalona: Firefighters in northeastern Spain found two bodies in an abandoned building occupied by migrants and other squatters that caught fire and partially collapsed, while emergency works continued Thursday to extinguish the flames and assess if more people were trapped inside.

Catalonia's acting regional chief, Pere Aragonés, said that some 60 people have been accounted for so far, but that the industrial building could have been occupied by more than 100 squatters.

Work was underway to fully extinguish the flames and stabilize the structure to safely access it and look for anyone else who might be trapped inside, Aragonés told Spanish public broadcaster TVE.

Local media reported that some of the squatters were African migrants who had found shelter in the abandoned building.

AP

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