At least 10 people were killed after a fire broke out in a retirement home in the northern Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro early Friday, authorities said. The blaze started in one of the rooms, Fernando Beltran,

At least 10 people died and others were injured in a blaze at a nursing home near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain, before firefighters managed to extinguish the flames, local authorities said Friday.

Ten people have died in a fire at a nursing home in north-eastern Spain. On Friday, Nov. 15, the head of the regional government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, confirmed that the deaths occurred in the early hours of the morning in the Villafranca de Ebro nursing home.

About 82 people had been living in the facility, which focused on treating people with dementia and mental health issues.

At least 10 people died in a blaze at a nursing home in Zaragoza, Spain, before firefighters managed to extinguish it, local authorities reported on Friday.

At least 10 people were killed Friday and two people injured, one of them critically, in a fire at a care home in a small community near Zaragoza in Spain's northeastern Aragon region, Spanish authorities said.