One dead, more than 100 injured in retirement home fire in Spain

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Madrid, Safar 8, 1438, Nov 8, 2016, SPA -- A 95-year-old man was killed and more than 100 people injured in a fire at a retirement home in a Madrid suburb, Spanish media reported Tuesday according to dpa. Witnesses said the fire had started in the bedroom of the sole fatality, according to the EFE news agency. Investigations are still under way at the home, which is located in the municipality of San Sebastian de los Reyes, 18 kilometres north of Madrid, but the fire may have been caused by an electrical device, reports said. Thirty residents had to be taken to hospital and a further 83 were treated at the scene for mild smoke inhalation. --SPA 20:29 LOCAL TIME 17:29 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w265777

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