Nursing home fire kills 6 in eastern Spain

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say six residents of a nursing home near Valencia have died in a fire. A regional official said Wednesday that another 17 residents were hospitalized. The official says the cause of the fire is under investigation but officials think it might have started with a short-circuit in a mechanism linked to a oxygen tank. Firefighters said a total of 70 residents were evacuated from the nursing home in the municipality of Moncada, just north of the city of Valencia. Spain’s nursing homes, like those in many other countries, were particularly hard-hit during the worst months of the coronavirus pandemic.