Sources: BBC
Twenty-six people are arrested by Spanish police in Madrid, Málaga, and Toledo for operating a sex trafficking ring that abused over 600 women. 32 women were freed during the operation. 2024-07-31
Spanish politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca is shot in the face while walking in Madrid, Spain, and taken to hospital in critical condition. 2023-11-9
Two people are killed and twelve others are injured in a fire in a restaurant in Madrid, Spain. 2023-04-22
An explosion caused by a gas leak at a residence for priests in Madrid, Spain results in four fatalities and injures ten others. It also partially destroys the residence. 2021-01-20
Madrid announces plans to introduce targeted lockdowns and other restrictions on movement on September 18, in areas with high cases, local authorities said as the region accounts for around one-third of active cases in Spain. 2020-09-16
A massive fire breaks out at a tire dump in Seseña, near Madrid in Spain. The illegal dump contains 100,000 tons of used vehicle tires. The smoke from the fire is visible for at least 30km. 2016-05-13
Pro-independence Catalan leaders vowed to continue their efforts to secede from Spain, defying a ruling by the Madrid-based constitutional court that suspended a law defining a path for independence. 2015-11-11
A scorpion stings a passenger on a flight from Costa Rica to Spain, which forced the sealing of the Iberia airlines Airbus A340 at Madrid's Barajas International Airport. 2012-11-26
World Youth Day 2011 organizers announce Pope Benedict XVI’s schedule of activities for the multi-day event, which will take place Aug. 18-21 in Madrid, Spain. 2011-02-10
3 more Cuban dissidents released on humanitarian grounds arrive with their families in Madrid, Spain. 2010-08-17