Crime/Incidents news & information for Valencia

A BRITISH man is in intensive care after he was stabbed at home by another expat following a drunken row in a southern Costa Blanca bar.

A GAS explosion in an apartment in Santa Pola (southern Alicante province) left one man dead and caused a fire which destroyed three storeys, emergency services reveal.

A 66-YEAR-OLD man has died after being attacked by five pitbulls all at once whilst walking across his own land in Beniarbeig (Alicante province).

A BRITISH man aged 86 has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, 79, at the nursing home where they both lived.

A NATIONWIDE corruption trial involving top-flight PP politicians and business tycoons is coming to an end, with the hearing focusing on the former Valencia regional government culminating in a series of long prison...

A BRITISH man accused of sexual assaults on over 30 children in the UK and Thailand has been arrested in Santa Pola (Alicante province).

OVER 3,000 workers from 150 companies have been evacuated and schools shut down following a dramatic chemical plant explosion in Paterna, near Valencia.

ONE of the sons-in-law of the CAM bank chairman's widow has been arrested in connection with her sudden death inside her car two months ago.

A PROTEST outside Valencia's immigration internment centre will continue until 12.30 midday today (Sunday) after a 24-hour lock-in yesterday as campaigners call for it to remain shut.

A COUPLE and their 12-year-old daughter have died in their Alicante city home after hundreds of kilos of clothing fell on top of them at once.

SEVEN people have been arrested in Valencia 12 years on from the biggest diamond heist of the century, worth €67 million.

A WOMAN has been fined €800 under Spain's new 'Public Safety Law' for posting a photo of a police patrol car illegally parked on Facebook.