Spanish authorities said at least 10 people have died and others were injured in a fire at a nursing home on Friday near Spain's northeastern city of Zaragoza. The cause of the fire is not yet known but the local mayor told reporters that intense smoke from the blaze was likely responsible for the deaths.

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.

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.

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MADRID — 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.

At least 10 people have died in a fire at a care home near Zaragoza in north-eastern Spain, the prime minister of the autonomous region of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, confirmed in an X post on Friday. Azcón called for a day of mourning on Saturday.

The cause of the fire at the nursing home for people with dementia and other mental health problems is unknown. Local authorities say the victims likely died of smoke inhalation.

At least 10 people have been killed and two injured after a fire ripped through a retirement home in Spain today. The blaze broke out at the Jardines de Villafranca nursing home in the Zaragoza town of Villafranca de Ebro at 5am.