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Fire at Madrid Restaurant Results in Two Dead, Ten Injured
Fire at Madrid Restaurant Results in Two Dead, Ten Injured
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A fire at a restaurant in Madrid, Spain killed two people and injured others after a waiter flambéed a pizza which set the restaurant's plastic decor ablaze.
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The fire broke out on Saturday at the entrance to a restaurant in Plaza de Manuel Becerra in Madrid’s Salamanca district. "Fire in a restaurant in Plaza Manuel Becerra. …SAMUR-Proteccion Civil [specialized emergency system of Madrid] attends to 10 [injured] people and confirms the death of two people," the emergency services said on Twitter. El Mundo newspaper reported that the blaze occurred when a waiter flambéed a pizza by pouring alcohol over the pizza and lighting it with a blowtorch, the flames then caught plastic flowers decorating the ceiling and columns of the restaurant. El Mundo said, citing the city’s emergency services, that the dead include a 25-year-old waiter and a 40-year-old customer. An investigation is underway.
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Fire at Madrid Restaurant Results in Two Dead, Ten Injured
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Two people died and ten others were injured in a fire that occurred at a restaurant in Spain’s capital of Madrid, the city’s emergency services inform.
The fire broke out on Saturday at the entrance to a restaurant in Plaza de Manuel Becerra in Madrid’s Salamanca district.
"Fire in a restaurant in Plaza Manuel Becerra. …SAMUR-Proteccion Civil [specialized emergency system of Madrid] attends to 10 [injured] people and confirms the death of two people," the emergency services said on Twitter.
El Mundo newspaper reported that the blaze occurred when a waiter flambéed a pizza by pouring alcohol over the pizza and lighting it with a blowtorch, the flames then caught plastic flowers decorating the ceiling and columns of the restaurant.
El Mundo said, citing the city’s emergency services, that the dead include a 25-year-old waiter and a 40-year-old customer.
An investigation is underway.
