Four people died this Tuesday in the fire of an abandoned bank office, occupied by several people in Barcelona, including a little boy and a baby.
The victims are “two adults, a baby and a three-year-old child”Ángel López, from the Barcelona fire brigade, informed the Spanish press, who declared the fire extinguished, as quoted by the AFP news agency.
The mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colau, declared to the press that “there are no words to describe the horror of four dead people, including two very young children, is something that should never happen. This is horrible news. “
The authorities did not specify whether the victims belonged to the same family or their nationality.
“There are no words to describe the horror of four dead people, including two very young children, it is something that should never happen. It is horrible news.”Ada Colau
Meanwhile, the fire department specified that “at 6 in the morning we received a notice from a witness who saw a fire” in an “old occupied bank office” located in the Plaza de Tetuán.
Rescuers tried to resuscitate the four victimsBut “unfortunately the work has been unsuccessful, nothing could be done for his life,” López lamented.
Four other people, who had taken refuge from the flames in a courtyard, could be rescued, the firefighter said. All had to be treated by the emergency services due to poisoning and transferred to different hospitals, although the authorities clarified that they are out of danger.
The police of the Catalonia region, the Mossos d’Esquadra, reported on Twitter that they are investigating the fire to determine its causes.
Lament the death of 4 people, dues d’elles minors, in l’incendi d’un premises a la pl. of Tetuan.
Quatre people more have been per inhalation of smoke. The foc has been extinct.
Hi hem treballat 8 endowments of #BombersBCN in col·laboració amb la @GUBBarcelona i @semgencat. pic.twitter.com/0IIgWdUNJF
– Bombers Barcelona (@BCN_Bombers) November 30, 2021
This event was reminiscent of another that occurred in Catalonia almost a year ago, in December 2020, when four people died and several were injured in a fire in an abandoned industrial warehouse in Badalona, where between 100 and 200 migrants lived in precarious conditions.
