Authorities say at least 10 people have died and others were injured in a fire at a nursing home near the northeastern Spanish city of Zaragoza.

At least 10 people died in a blaze at a nursing home in Zaragoza, Spain, before firefighters managed to extinguish it, local authorities reported on Friday.

The fire took place just weeks after devastating flash floods in Valencia killed more than 200 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

Fire ripped through a retirement home in the town of Villafranca del Ebro in northern Spain early on Friday, killing at least 10 people, the regional government of Aragon said.

Emergency services said the blaze had broken out in the early hours of the morning. The cause was still being investigated.

At least 10 people have been killed and others hurt in a fire that broke out at a retirement home near Zaragoza in north-eastern Spain, emergency services say. The fire broke out in the town of Villafranca de Ebro early on Friday morning and local officials said more than 80 people were living in the home at the time.

A tragic fire at a Spanish retirement home has claimed the lives of at least 10 people. The fire broke out in Villafranca de Ebro, near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain, early Friday morning in the facility,

At least 10 people were killed Friday and two people injured, one of them critically, in a fire at a care home in a small community near Zaragoza in Spain's northeastern Aragon region, Spanish authorities said.