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Barcelona, January 5 (EFE) .- Three people were killed and 29 wounded, including a baby, in a fire Saturday in a residential building in Badalona, north of Barcelona. shortly after 6 am (in Brasilia) for unknown causes and which quickly spread, affecting several buildings of the building, according to firefighters and emergency medical authorities of the Catalunya region .
Three residents were killed and 29 injured.
A 92-year-old woman is among the dead, the other two have not yet been identified
Among the wounded is a baby hospitalized in critical condition due to burns and two adults who are are thrown to the outside of the building to try to escape the flames and smoke and who were hospitalized in serious condition
Some residents of Sant Roc bay, where the fire 's occurred, reported that firefighters had taken too long to reach the site and that an affected person was waiting 40 minutes for rescue from a ladder.
Several concerned persons were evacuated with a ladder provided by the residents, while firefighters also rescue other residents with the ladders of their vehicles.
The Minister of the Interior of the Regional Government of Catalonia, Miguel Buch, told the press that the first fire engines had arrived nine minutes after the start of the fire.
As a precaution, the local police closed the traffic in the immediate area and the firefighters were closed
Badalona Mayor Alex Pastor pointed out that the "quick reaction" of Urgency prevented "tragedy". relocated contiguous buildings with the building hit by the flames until the fire extinguished, four and a half hours after the start.
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