Three people, a man aged 58, his wife, and their 28 year old son have been killed and as many as 16 families evacuated following a fire in a residential block in Torre del Mar.
The victims’ bodies were found by the fire service in two bedrooms and a passageway of the home. The Mayor of Vélez, Francisco Delgado Bonilla, explained that they used heat sensing cameras to find the people inside the flat.
Two people, a 21 year old woman, the wife of another of the family’s children, and a two year old baby boy were also injured, but their lives are not in danger after they were rescued by firemen from the balcony of the fourth floor flat. They remain under observation for smoke inhalation in the Axarquía Comarcal Hospital.
Another of the couple’s children was away from the flat at the time of the tragedy, working as a night guard in Torre del Mar Nautical Club.
The fire broke out at 7am on Sunday in a fourth floor flat of the block in Calle Cuesta del Visillo, in the Las Malvinas urbanisation in Torre del Mar.
Firemen and local police from Vélez-Málaga rushed to the scene and the fire was extinguished quickly. Investigations show that it started in the lounge of the home, and could have been caused by an electrical fault.
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