Dozens injured after huge gas explosion in Madrid bar: Emergency workers and search dogs comb through the wreckage

At least 25 people have been injured in a huge gas explosion at a bar in Madrid.

Of those hit by the blast, three have critical injuries and another two potentially serious wounds, emergency services said.

The incident occurred at around 3pm on Manuel Maroto Street in the Puente de Vallecas district of the Spanish capital and also affected the flats above the bar.

Emergency services were scrambled to the scene, with sniffer dogs and drones being deployed to provide additional support.

Firefighters were clearing rubble at the premises in the capital’s Vallecas neighbourhood, Madrid emergency services announced on X, sharing footage of the bar’s partially collapsed ceiling and bricks strewn on the ground.

Sniffer dogs were also seen combing through the wreckage. 

Doors had been ripped off their hinges, with shards of glass scattered on the road outside, while first responders whisked away a victim on a stretcher.

The civil protection and medical services had treated 25 people, with three of them in a ‘serious’ and two in a ‘potentially serious’ condition, the emergency services said.

At least 25 people have been injured in a huge gas explosion at a bar in Madrid. Pictured: Emergency responders at the scene

Doors had been ripped off their hinges, with shards of glass scattered on the road outside, while first responders whisked away a victim on a stretcher

Of those hit by the blast, three have critical injuries and another two potentially serious wounds, emergency services said

The incident occurred at around 3pm on Manuel Maroto Street in the Puente de Vallecas district of the Spanish capital and also affected the flats above the bar

Firefighters were clearing rubble at the premises in the capital’s Vallecas neighbourhood, Madrid emergency services announced on X, sharing footage of the bar’s partially collapsed ceiling and bricks strewn on the ground

Neighbours told El Pais that the blast occurred in an area treated as an inhabited ground floor.

Police have closed off a section of the street and are directing traffic on adjoining roads.

In a statement on X, Madrid’s council wrote: ‘[Police] have attended to 21 injured people, 3 of them serious and 2 potentially serious.

’18 [firefighting] units are continuing to work on removing the debris. They are being joined by the canine unit.

‘The Aerial Support Section of Madrid Police is working with drones.’

It comes after a British woman was killed in a gas explosion at a bar in southern Spain.

The 56-year-old was one of two women killed after a gas canister exploded at the Casa Javi bar in San Pedro del Pinatar in Murcia in June.

Neighbours told El Pais that the blast occurred in an area treated as an inhabited ground floor

Pictured: Emergency responders work to clear the scene following the explosion

In a statement on X, Madrid’s council wrote: ‘[Police] have attended to 21 injured people, 3 of them serious and 2 potentially serious. 18 [firefighting] units are continuing to work on removing the debris. They are being joined by the canine unit. The Aerial Support Section of Madrid Police is working with drones’

The unnamed Brit, who reportedly lived in the area, was visiting the weekly market when she was struck by the blast.

Their deaths were today confirmed by the local town hall in a post on X.

The other fatal victim was the 38-year-old owner of the bar, a woman of Moroccan origin named Hind, who suffered severe burns, reports El Español.

The respected Spanish newspaper said the British woman was an expat who lives in the Lo Pagan area.