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[ad_1] A woman left a heart-wrenching voice message to her mother as she was caught up in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in Spain. At least 1

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A woman left a heart-wrenching voice message to her mother as she was caught up in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in Spain.

At least 13 people were killed in the blaze that appeared to have broken out in a building housing the “Teatre” and “Fonda Milagros” clubs in the city of Murcia, in southeastern Spain on Sunday morning.

The father of one of the victims, a man named Jairo, told reporters his 28-year-old daughter was inside one of the clubs and left a desperate voicemail to her mother at 6.06am.

“Mum, I love you, we’re going to die, I love you mum,” she could be heard crying on the recording as people in the background shouted to turn the lights on.

Jairo said he had no news of his daughter since.

Authorities do not yet know where exactly the fire started when it reportedly broke out around 6am local time.

“The fire spread from the upper parts of the two clubs, the Teatra disco and the Fonda Milagros disco … which originally were in the same building,” said Diego Seral, spokesman for the national police.

Police have established a list of 15 people missing after the blaze, but Seral said that it was not yet final and could contain names of some of the victims who had already been found.

“I think we left 30 seconds to one minute before the alarms went off and all the lights went out (and) the screams saying there was a fire,” one survivor told reporters, according to ABC News.

“Five family members and two friends are missing.”

Emergency services said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that firefighters were continuing to work at the scene and had not ruled out “the possibility of finding more victims.”

Jose Ballesta, mayor of Murcia, told the press at the scene that “there are still bodies to be pulled out” from the rubble, which he said was a complicated task given the “risk of collapse”.

Firefighters dispatched to the scene at 7am were able to extinguish the fire by 8am, he said.

Authorities said four people were injured, two women aged 22 and 25 years old and two men in their forties, all suffering from smoke inhalation.

Birthday party

A police spokesperson said that a birthday party was being held at the club on Saturday night, while Spanish media reported several birthday celebrations were taking place at the time.

Video footage released by the city’s firefighting brigade shows the firefighters holding a long hose approaching bright orange flames inside the venue, passing bar tables that still have drinks placed on top of them.

More than 40 firefighters and 12 emergency vehicles were attending the scene, authorities said.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez voiced “solidarity with the victims and relatives of the tragic fire in a Murcia nightclub”.

Spain’s tennis superstar and this year’s Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz wrote on X that he was “very affected by the terrible news”.

The city’s mayor announced that three days of mourning would be held, and set up a reception base for the relatives of victims. The city’s bars and restaurants will remain closed on Sunday in a sign of respect to the victims, said Hoytu, the local hotel-restaurant association.

In 2017, 40 people were injured in a packed nightclub on Spain’s holiday island of Tenerife when a floor collapsed.

The injured were from countries including France, Britain, Romania and Belgium. And in 1990, 43 people died in a fire at a nightclub in Spain’s northeastern city of Zaragoza.

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