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Date Published: 17/11/2021
ARCHIVED - Intentional house fire kills mother and two children in Almeria city
The family was barricaded in their top-floor bedroom by a bed in what looks to be a suicide or homicide
A mother and her two children died early this morning, Wednesday November 17, in a fire in a top-floor apartment Almería city. According to the National Police, the origin of the fire seems to have been “intentional”.
The tragic event took place at around 12.10am in Calle Euro in the area of El Alquián.
Reports suggest that there was a bed against the door of the room where the bodies were found which blocked access to the room from the outside.
Sources familiar with the case explained that the firemen had to break down the entrance door to the room as it was blocked with a bed placed “behind it from the inside”.
“The investigation is open and two paths are being followed,” said the Almería Provincial Police Station in a statement, “that of suicide and that of a crime against persons.”
Preliminary investigations also highlight the “particular virulence” of the fire, which affected almost exclusively the room where the woman and her two young children were trapped, which is not “usual”. Police will now endeavour to investigate whether this is due to the presence of especially flammable materials in the room or if “some kind of accelerant” could have been used.
Some reports suggest the mother, who was receiving psychiatric treatment, had been buying large quantities of gasoline in the days leading up to the incident, while traces of sedatives were found in bodies of the two children, a boy and a girl of around 5 and 9 years old.
A neighbour of the victims said that the father of the children is a lorry driver and was working in Germany at the time of the incident.
Image: Guardia Civil
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