India, Feb. 18 -- Five people have died and five others suffered light injuries in northeastern Spain in a fire that broke out in an apartment building, regional emergency services said late Monday.

The fire originated in the storage room of a five-story apartment block in Manlleu, a town of 21,000 north of Barcelona, regional authorities in Catalonia said in a statement.

For reasons not yet known, the victims could not escape the attic storage room, authorities said. What caused the blaze also wasn't yet known. The victims will be identified later Tuesday, as some of the bodies were charred. Catalan police said the five dead were all young people and that they did not live in the building.

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