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.

MADRID — 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. Authorities were alerted of the blaze early Friday morning in Villa Franca de Ebro, about 30 minutes from the northeastern city.

Volga Ramirez, mayor of Villafranca de Ebro, said 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.

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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.