What the records say
- When
- 17 Dec 1983
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 40.42° N, 3.70° W
- Description
- fire occurred 17 December 1983
- Deaths
- 81
- Cause
- conflagration, crowd collapses and crushes
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Alcalá 20 nightclub fire in Madrid, Spain, injuring 47 and killing 83 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Madrid, un incendio en la discoteca Alcalá 20 causa la muerte de 83 personas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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