Terrifying moment cars are swept away as roads become rivers in Spain. Horrendous weather has it Spain as people fight torrential rain, powerful winds, and dodge flash flooding.
Horrific flooding swept through large parts of Spain yesterday killing dozensThe full horror of the devastating storms that lashed large parts of Spain yesterday has begun to emerge this morning as police confirmed they had recovered 13 bodies overnight in the province of Valencia alone.
The worst-hit areas are the province of Valencia where political leader Carlos Mazon first went public with news of 'several fatalities' in the early hours of this morning and the small town of Letur in the province of Albacete where six people including two council workers are said to be missing after a river burst its banks.
'But we can confirm there are fatalities, there are bodies and bodies are continuing to appear in places we hadn't been able to access before.' Others are said to have clung onto trees to save their lives as streets were turned into raging rivers after rivers burst their banks. 'We spent three hours on top of the lorry trailer before the water levels started to descend and we could reach safety.'Men run next to a car covered with mud on a flooded street in Alora, near Malaga, on October 29, 2024, after a heavy rain hit southern SpainFootage shows several cars floating atop rapidly moving, soil-coloured water during the storm.
A large white van carried away in the flood water ended up smashing into a house and becoming trapped between two walls.Further south inland areas of the province of Malaga bordering the Guadalhorce River were also badly affected. An unspecified number of missing persons have been found dead in areas affected by flash floods devastating parts of the country, the leader of the Valencia region told reporters early on Wednesday.
In another, several cars float atop rapidly moving, soil-coloured water. The vehicles flush along the street and audibly bang into each other as they move. Emergency services workers backed by drones were looking for six people who have gone missing in the wake of flash floods in the town, the central government's representative in Castilla-La Mancha told Spanish public television TVE.
State weather agency AEMET declared a red alert in the Valencia region and the second-highest level of alert in parts of Andalusia.Elsewhere, in the Spanish city of Almería cars have been destroyed by giant golf ball-sized hailstones that fell from the sky as a violent storm passed over last night.
The hailstorm's size and severity was the result of stormclouds that have been plaguing the region for days.
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