‘Flambeed pizza’ leads to deadly fire at Madrid restaurant

Restaurant employee and customer die and 12 people injured in blaze after decorations caught light

Two people died and 12 were injured in a fire apparently sparked when a waiter flambeed a pizza at a Madrid restaurant and accidentally set decorations ablaze.

One of the dead was a restaurant employee and the other a customer, said the city’s mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida. He said one person was in a critical condition in hospital and five others were seriously hurt.