Spain: pain in the city on the third day of mourning for the violent fire that caused 10 deaths

The Spanish city of Valencia (east) remains immersed in grief for the tragedy with ten deaths in the fire of a residential building, while trying to return to normality on the third day of official mourning.

At the beginning of this Sunday the municipal workers The removal activities of the ashes and burnt waste continued and they were the only ones to break the silence in an area where the smell of burning could still be felt after the fire that destroyed a fourteen-storey building with 138 homes, still charred, on Thursday.

The firefighters continue their work inside the building, while the forensic police continue their investigations, under secret summary.

The Institute of Forensic Medicine continues the identification of the bodies of the deceased, awaiting the results of DNA analyzes and in some cases anthropological studies, before authorizing the delivery of the body to relatives.

Fire, who burned the building and another annex in just an hourit also caused fifteen injuries, more than half of them firefighters, of whom only one remains hospitalized without fear for his life.

The investigation

During a minute of silence for the victims, the neighbors underlined that they are living “a bad dream” from which they will struggle to wake up, without abandoning the pain and recounting their different situations.

The official mourning for the victims, which will end on Monday at noon local time, includes suspension of all events preceding the internationally famous Falla festivals in the city in eastern Spain, with around 800,000 inhabitants.

The building devastated by the fire he had an insurance policy for approximately 26.5 million euros regarding the building and another 31 for community furnishings, according to the policy to which EFE had access.

The Spanish Ministry of Science requested a study from a Madrid institute specializing in construction to investigate what happened in a fire that was impossible to stop and determine whether factors such as the material used in the facade of the property, built between 2005 and 2007, had an influence.

The people who lived in the building, many of them in the city’s hotels, are waiting to be able to access a building with 131 apartments purchased by the Municipality and which will be made available to them.