Firefighters and forensic authorities in Spain say nine bodies have been recovered from the ruins of a 14-floor apartment complex after fire tore through it in Valencia.
Officials earlier said 10 had been killed, but later said one was missing.
The cladding attached to the outside of the building as well as high winds are being blamed for the flames taking hold of the building in a matter of minutes.
Officials have refused to answer questions on the cause of the fire.
Three days of mourning will be observed.
The fire is thought to have taken hold on the fourth floor of the larger of the two 14-storey blocks, engulfing it in minutes and then spreading to the adjacent one.
Firefighters were unable to reach higher than the 12th floor as the flames burned at a terrifying pace through a layer of cladding, attached to the building under a very thin layer of aluminium.
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