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The suspect, with a history of violence and sexual abuse, killed three women including his ex-partner and injured two children in a fire under gender violence investigation.
- Emergency services in the northwestern region of Castile and Leon responded to a blaze in the town of Miranda de Ebro on Tuesday night, leaving three women dead and four other people injured.
- Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska characterized the incident as "an utterly despicable" case of gender violence, with the three dead women including the suspect's ex-partner and her mother.
- Daily newspaper El Pais reported the victims were a 24-year-old Colombian and two Spaniards aged 58 and 78, while the suspect previously served prison terms for violence against women.
- The suspect handed himself in to police on Wednesday and is in custody, confirmed by Pedro de la Fuente, the central government's top representative in the province of Burgos.
- Two children aged seven and 11 were among the four injured, while the central government's office against gender violence is gathering information on the case.
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Spain shocked after fire kills three women in gender violence case
Spain was on Wednesday shocked by one of its worst episodes of gender-based violence as police investigated a suspected arson attack on a residential building that left three women dead and four other people injured.
The suspect turned himself in to the police on Wednesday and has been in custody ever since. During the fire in Miranda de Ebro, the ex-partner of the alleged perpetrator, her mother and another resident were killed.
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Spain shocked after fire kills 3 women in gender violence case
Spain was on Wednesday shocked by one of its worst episodes of gender-based violence as police investigated a suspected arson attack on a residential building that left three women dead and four other people injured.
The 60-year-old man who was arrested on Wednesday in Miranda de Ebro for allegedly causing a fire in which three women, including his former partner, have died, was convicted in the past for kidnapping a girl and assaulting another woman, according to police sources. Specifically, in 2024 he was sentenced to one year and seven months in prison for detaining a woman in a squatting house in Miranda de Ebro, who he chained and beat in November 2023…
Three women, aged 78, 58, and 24, were murdered in a fire that also injured four others in the town of Miranda de Ebro, in the Spanish province of Burgos. Hours before the fire, witnesses saw the main suspect stacking mattresses against the building's doorways, which ignited the blaze and prevented the victims from escaping. Read Here: Iran claims it destroyed US military bases. Despite a large deployment of police, firefighters, and paramedics,…
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