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.

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