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Two Die After Early-Morning Fire Rips Through Magaluf Apartment Block

Preliminary probes point to an electrical fault in a refrigerator and investigators are carrying out forensic tests as officials identify the victims.

Overview

  • The blaze began in a third-floor flat of the nine-story Trianon II building in Magaluf in the early hours of Thursday, June 11, and spread quickly upward before firefighters contained it after about two hours.
  • Fire crews evacuated dozens of residents and treated more than 20 people for smoke inhalation and burns, with several patients hospitalized or under observation at Hospital Son Espases.
  • Authorities confirmed two deaths by smoke inhalation: a 58-year-old Argentine man known as Adrián, found on the ninth-floor stairwell, and a 68-year-old British woman who lived in a separate unit.
  • The Guardia Civil is leading a probe and says initial findings point to an electrical fault in a refrigerator as the likely origin, and officials are using fingerprints and DNA, with family cooperation, to complete formal identifications.
  • The Calvià town hall has activated social and tourism assistance for displaced residents and declared two days of official mourning, and the incident may prompt tighter safety checks in tourist housing blocks.