Spanish investigators are treating the deaths of a mother and daughter in a flat fire on the Costa del Sol as a suspected double homicide, after forensic evidence indicated the victims suffered injuries consistent with violent death prior to the blaze.
The bodies of a 61-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter, both Spanish nationals, were discovered in the early hours of July 8, 2026, inside a burning apartment on Tulipán Street in Las Lagunas, a district of Mijas in Málaga province. The fire was reported at 2:15 a.m. and the Civil Guard has classified the deaths as violent. Detectives are working on the hypothesis that the fire was deliberately set to conceal a double murder, though no line of inquiry has been ruled out.
The remains are to be transferred to the Málaga Forensic Anatomy Institute for autopsy.