Spanish authorities have announced that the bodies of two people have gone missing in the Madrid area following heavy rains earlier this week. near a flooded river in the province of Toledo, is still missing.
According to the prefecture of the Madrid region, two bodies were found in Aldea del Fresno, a city located 60 kilometers from Madrid that was one of the hardest hit by heavy rains that hit central Spain overnight from Sunday to Monday. .
“The Civil Guard has discovered (…) two missing people southwest of Madrid,” the prefect of the Madrid region, Francisco Martín, said in X, previously on Twitter. The remains of two men were found near a bridge that collapsed due to flooding, at the foot of which a large amount of debris had accumulated.
Recurring disasters
The first victim, an 83-year-old man, disappeared in the town of Villamanta, seven kilometers upstream from where the body was found. The second, a father in his fifties, was in Aldea del Fresno with his wife and two children at the time of the tragedy and was taken away in his car. His wife and daughter were rescued shortly after the accident, but his 10-year-old son survived by clinging to tree branches for nearly nine hours.
A country on the front line of global warming, Spain regularly experiences torrential rains in late summer and autumn, which struggle to penetrate the ground and suddenly cause river beds to swell. This phenomenon, called “Dana” (“isolated high-level depression”) by meteorologists, often has dramatic consequences, as in 2018, when 13 people died in floods on the island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands.
Source: Le Parisien
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