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Six die in retirement home blaze

Tuesday February 09 2010

A fire at a retirement home in the southern Spanish city of Seville has killed six people and injured 12, according to a regional government official.

Micaela Navarro, social welfare councillor for the government, said 13 people were rescued unhurt from the three-floor house in central Seville.

The fire broke out around midnight on Monday in an upstairs room.

The injured are being treated at the city's Virgen del Rocio hospital.