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Firefighters pick through the still-smouldering ruins of a 14-storey apartment building for the more than a dozen people reported missing after a fire ravaged the block of flats in the Spanish port city of Valencia, claiming the lives of at least four people. Experts say the building was covered with highly flammable cladding, which could account for the rapid spread of the blaze after it broke out on the fourth floor at around 5:30 pm (1630 GMT) on February 22. IMAGES
Images of the residential building in the Spanish port city of Valencia where a serious fire has claimed at least four lives. The fire spread at a spectacular rate and 14 people are still missing. The images show smoke billowing from the building and firefighters working inside. IMAGES
Images of emergency services at the scene where at least 13 people have been killed in a fire in a Spanish nightclub on Sunday morning. The toll could still rise as rescue workers sift through the debris. The fire appears to have broken out in a building housing the "Teatre" and "Fonda Milagros" clubs in the city of Murcia in southeastern Spain in the early morning hours. IMAGES
Images supplied by Spain's Military Emergencies Unit show members of the Spanish rescue team searching the rubble in the earthquake-stricken village of Imi N'Talat, to the southwest of Marrakesh. Spanish rescue workers are among the foreign teams helping in the aftermath of Friday's 6.8-magnitude quake, which struck the Atlas mountains. The disaster has so far killed at least 2,681 people and left another 2,500 injured. IMAGES
A cloud of smoke covers La Orotava, a village in northern Tenerife, at dawn, after wildfire that has raged for a week on the holiday island and forced thousands of people to flee. On August 22, authorities said Spanish firefighters were gaining the upper hand in their battle against the blaze, which broke out late August 15 in an area of steep ravines and cliffs in the northeast of the island, part of Spain's Canary Islands archipelago off the northwestern coast of Africa. IMAGES
Firefighters battle a a huge wildfire on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife that has forced the evacuation of thousands of people and has so far destroyed more than 3,800 hectares (9,400 acres) of land, according to the regional government. The fire, which broke out late on Tuesday, has been raging through a forested area with steep ravines in the northeastern part of the island which is part of the Spanish archipelago that lies off the coast of northwestern Africa. IMAGES