spanish Officials have confirmed that five Britons have been killed in the fires after other victims were identified.
Three more people were identified yesterday afternoon and officials said one was from Great Britain.
The identity of the last three of the 13 victims remains unconfirmed, but this is expected to change today.
Earlier, police said a 93-year-old woman who died in hospital was British and three of the first six identified through DNA tests and matches with loved ones were also from the UK.
They include expat couple Pete and Fran Gillam, whose Sheffield-based daughter Danielle Gillam-Kirton had flown to Spain from her home in the UK after they failed to respond to her messages and public appeals for information on their whereabouts.
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She said in agony Facebook The post yesterday afternoon: ‘Natalie Gillam Lindsay and I are heartbroken to share that we have received confirmation from the police that mum and dad did not survive the fire.
“We are still trying to come to terms with this devastating news and ask for some privacy and time while we process everything.
‘Thank you for all your love, support and prayers over the past few days. They have been more to us than we can ever express.
“We will share further details when we have the opportunity.”
The devastating fire started last Thursday in Los Gallardos in the south-eastern Spanish province of Almeria before spreading to neighboring Bedar, where many UK pensioners live.
Confirming that the number of British victims had risen to five yesterday evening, the High Court of Andalusia said: “During the afternoon, the identification of three more victims of the fire in Los Gallardos was completed. In this case it is a question of a married couple of Belgian origin and a woman from Great Britain.
“With these three recent identifications, there would be three of the thirteen victims of the fire yet to be identified, as the British woman who died in hospital did not need to be identified.
“The Civil and Investigative Section of the Court of First Instance Vera, Court No. 3, responsible for the removal of the corpses, has already confirmed the nine identifications.
In total, the victims of the fire identified so far are four men and five women, eight of whom are foreign nationals and one Spanish.
Of the thirteen people who died – one of them in hospital – five were from the United Kingdom, three from Belgiumone of Franceand one was a Spanish national. All of them were adults.
“The first six identifications of the victims of the fire in Los Gallardos took place this morning. Among those identified was a married couple in which the husband was Spanish and the wife a citizen of the United Kingdom.
“A man and a woman from the United Kingdom, a woman from France and a man from Belgium have also been identified.
In these nine cases, the families of the ‘victims’ have already been notified. The notification is carried out personally by uniformed officers of the Civil Guard accompanied by a psychologist.
Three other Britons who suffered severe burns but survived are believed to be among four patients airlifted to a specialist burns unit at a hospital in Sevilla.
A British couple miraculously survived the flames after getting stuck in a ravine during a hike.
Rescue teams found them semi-conscious and with 40% burns on their bodies, but alive near Bedar.
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