Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at care homes.
The discoveries came as an ice rink at a Madrid shopping centre was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases.
The army has been charged with helping to disinfect retirement homes in Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the pandemic.
Dozens of deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded at facilities across the country. "We are going to be strict and inflexible when dealing with the way old people are treated in these residences," Defence Minister Margarita Robles said in an interview with private television channel Telecinco. "The army, during certain visits, found some old people