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Many missing as deadly fire devastates Valencia apartment block
- At least four people are dead and 14 injured, after fire engulfed a high-rise. apartment complex in the Spanish city of Valencia.
- Firefighters were seen rescuing people from balconies, using cranes to reach those trapped on high floors.
- The city’s mayor says there are between nine and 15 people who have not yet been located.
- There are fears that highly flammable cladding on the building’s facade may have helped the fire spread – as in the 2017 tragedy at London’s Grenfell Tower.
- Some 450 people are believed to live in the apartment blocks, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Source: BBC