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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stephen Burgen and Jon Henley

Final death toll from Spanish tower block blaze is nine, say police

Spanish police have said the final death toll from a devastating fire that tore through a 14-storey block of flats in the eastern city of Valencia is nine, with one person thought to have died now considered missing and all others accounted for.

El País cited national police as saying that after forensic analysis of the bodies found in the charred building, they had lowered the number of victims from the 10 previously reported by the Spanish government’s representative in the region.

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