Officials say four people have died while trying to escape a blazing apartment building in Spain's second-largest city, Barcelona. Ricard Goma, acting mayor of the north-eastern port city, said Thursday a woman of Peruvian nationality, her son and daughter, and a Spanish woman who was married to her son died on stairs after being trapped by flames and smoke.
Town councillor Elsa Blasco said the woman's husband the father of two of the deceased had survived the fire thanks to a neighbour who stopped him from using the stairs.