They find the bodies of two missing due to torrential rains in Spain

The bodies of two people reported missing in the region of Madrid due to the torrential rains that fell at the beginning of the week, they were found this Friday, the authorities announced.

Images of the area where agents of the Special Group of Underwater Activities of the Civil Guard have found the body of a man in Aldea del Fresno (Madrid) https://t.co/EIghBulx16 pic.twitter.com/kZjo7BILIN

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The discovery of the two bodies brings the number to five. number of deaths confirmed by heavy rainfall.

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A sixth person, a woman, remains missing after she was swept away by the current of a river that overflowed in the province of Toledoregion of Castilla la Mancha (center).

“The Civil Guard has found (…) the two missing in the southwest of Madrid“, reported on X (formerly Twitter) the delegate of the region of MadridFrancisco Martin.

Both bodies were recovered in ash village60 km from Madridone of the towns most affected by the rains that fell on the center of Spain from Sunday to Monday.

They were near a bridge that collapsed due to the floods and at the foot of which large amounts of rubble had accumulated.

The first victim, an 83-year-old man, had disappeared in the town of Villamantaseven kilometers upstream from where the body was found.

The second, a father in his fifties, had disappeared when his car was swept through the water in ash village.

According to the authorities with him His partner and two children were traveling.

The woman and daughter were rescued shortly after the incident, but the ten-year-old son survived thanks to remained clinging to a tree for about nine hours.

Spain, a European country on the front line of global warmingis regularly affected by Torrential rains at the end of summer or autumn, which cause sudden flooding of the rivers.

The phenomenon that generates the copious rains and stormscalled by meteorologists DANA (Isolated Depression at High Levels), has left tragic consequences in the past, such as in 2018, when thirteen people died on the island of Majorcain Balearics.

Source: Elcomercio

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