Tragic Building Fire Kills Four Children In Spain

A fire outbreak in a building in the northwestern city of Vigo, Spain, has claimed the lives of four children. The tragedy unfolded early Wednesday, just over a week after Spain mourned the loss of 13 lives in a deadly nightclub blaze. While the details surrounding Wednesday's fire are still under investigation, authorities have confirmed that the victims were aged between 9 and 14. Nine other individuals sustained injuries in the blaze, which ignited around 4:00 am local time on the ground floor of the building. Firefighters battled the flames for three hours before successfully extinguishing them. Emergency services deployed a team of psychologists to assist the grieving families at the scene. Vigo, a coastal city located in Spain's Galicia region and home to nearly 300,000 residents, is situated along the Atlantic coast, less than 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the border with Portugal. Alfonso Rueda, the regional president of Galicia, expressed his devastation over the tragic incident and offered condolences to the victims' families. This heartbreaking fire in Vigo follows the nightclub blaze on October 1, which claimed the lives of 13 people in the city of Murcia in southeastern Spain. A Spanish court has initiated a manslaughter investigation into the nightclub tragedy, as the establishment had ignored an earlier closure order, shedding light on potential safety lapses that contributed to the devastating incident.