Despite the fire being extinguished, firefighters from the Murcia region continue working in the area to find more people. At least three young people from the same family have disappeared.
So far, thirteen people have died and another four have been poisoned by smoke inhalation in the fire at the Teatre nightclub in Murcia, declared around 6 a.m. this Sunday, reports 112, while the National Police, incorporated to the investigation, does not rule out the discovery of more bodies.
The intoxicated people are two women, aged 22 and 25, and two men, aged 41 and 45, two of whom have been taken in ambulances to the local Reina Sofía hospital and the other two have gone to a health center on their own, according to statements to the regional public radio station Onda Regional de Murcia from one of the doctors who has worked caring for the injured since early in the morning.
He has also indicated that three other people had also gone on their own to the same hospital and five more to Morales Meseguer, also in the urban area of the city.
Once the flames were put out, the lifeless bodies of thirteen people have been found so far in the inspection of the premises, although before the start of the search there were several missing people from a group of friends who were celebrating a birthday in the premises whose roof has collapsed, as can be seen in videos circulating on social networks on the Internet recorded at the time of the events, before dawn.
There are also images recorded by witnesses to the fire after leaving that place and other attached nightclubs, as there are several in the streets of this popular area of cocktail bars in the Murcian capital, some of which are very frequented by Latinos.
An information area has been established for relatives of the victims in the nearby sports palace, where a team of psychologists cares for them.
Sources from the National Police do not rule out the discovery of more deceased people at the scene, where specialized fire investigation units have been deployed to determine their origin, as well as members of the homicide group of the higher headquarters.
Firefighters from the Murcia City Council and the Fire Extinction and Rescue Consortium of the Region of Murcia have worked to extinguish the flames, which has forced traffic to be cut off on the old Alicante road and at the entrances to the commercial area. and leisure of Las Atalayas.
The request for a firefighting helicopter from the General Directorate of Citizen Security and Emergencies has been canceled as there are sufficient ground resources to put out the fire in the area, where ambulances and police units remain.
The Murcian president, Fernando López Miras, writes on the internet social network ".
The fire at the Teatre de Murcia nightclub is not the only one that the nightclub located in the Atalayas leisure area has suffered. On June 21, 2009, it had to be evicted due to a fire involving cables that crossed its façade.
