Jorge Azcon, head of the regional government of Aragon, whose capital city is Zaragoza, confirmed the deaths and said on X, formerly Twitter, that all government events in the region were cancelled for the day.

At least ten people died and two are in critical condition in a fire that broke out early Friday at a retirement home near Zaragoza, the provincial capital of Aragon in northern Spain. At the time of the fire,

Fire ripped through a retirement home in the town of Villafranca del Ebro in northern Spain early on Friday, killing at least 10 people, the regional government of Aragon said.