At least three people were killed in an explosion in a building in Madrid
At least three people were killed when an explosion occurred in a building in downtown Cairo MadridThe city’s emergency information office said in a tweet Wednesday.
She added that eight other people were injured in the blast on Calle de Toledo, one of them in critical condition.
Madrid Mayor Jose Luis Martinez Almeida told reporters at the scene that preliminary investigations indicated that the explosion was caused by a gas leak.
Jose Manuel Franco, representative of the Spanish government for the Madrid region, said a technician who was working on the boiler was missing.
Madrid’s Attorney General, Avellino Seville, told Spanish TVE that a person associated with the Catholic Church who occupies part of the building is still missing.