Granada, (EFE) in their homes, the Local Police and the emergency coordination center have informed EFE.
The events occurred on the third floor of a residential block on Circunvalación Encina street. In the neighborhood of La Chana, around 3:15 a.m., for reasons that are being investigated. Although the first indications point to a gas burner on in the kitchen, which was near the terrace of the damaged property.
The event has caused the death of a six-year-old boy and the evacuation of his 47-year-old mother to the Granada Trauma Hospital. With a serious prognosis when she was injured with burns all over her body.
An elderly person has also been transferred to a hospital for prevention purposes. And an agent has been assisted at the scene for burns on one hand.
Deceased child and mother with significant burns
As reported to EFE by a spokesman for the Fire Department, upon arrival at the damaged home they found the child already deceased. And his mother -both apparently of North African origin- with “important” burns. Therefore, the first action was to rescue both of them, who were the only people in the house at that time.
The first indications point to a gas explosion as a possible cause of a butane leak from a burner, according to firefighters. They specify that the fire only affected the damaged home, a third party.
“We could not minimize anything, we limited ourselves to finishing extinguishing the fire, rescuing these people and evacuating the smoke”, explained the spokesman.
During the emergency intervention, in which members of the local and national police and firefighters participated, the evacuation of some 40 residents who have already returned to their homes was carried out for prevention purposes. EFE