Impressive snowfall shakes Spain | They are dead …

At least three people died today due to the very heavy snowstorm recorded since Friday in Spain.

Snowfall has taken its toll, leaving hundreds of motorists stranded, he Madrid Airport closed already much of the country paralyzed, but the worst is expected for this Saturday, with 20 centimeters of additional snow announced.

“Although, despite extremely difficult weather conditions, the number of incidents is relatively small, we must regret three deaths,” Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said at a press conference this morning.

This snowfall, the worst in 50 years in Spain, were constant in much of the territory on Friday evening, and caused a red alert this Saturday in five regions of the center of the country.

First, the region of Madrid, where public buses were hung, as well as garbage collection. In addition, Barajas International Airport was closed from Friday evening and will continue all day Saturday for “security reasons. On Friday, around thirty flights were canceled and as many were forced to land elsewhere. .

In addition, it was decided to stop the resumption of classes, suspended for the holidays, which was scheduled for Monday.

“Today has been difficult but tomorrow (Saturday) will be more difficult”, Madrid mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida tweeted in a video uploaded before midnight.

The snow disrupted traffic on some 400 roads, according to the transport authority. The Madrid region security and emergency agency said it had “worked all night to help” stranded motorists and “freed a thousand vehicles”.

In the capital, which had not experienced such a snowfall since 1971, they saw skiers on the famous Puerta del Sol square and even a man on a sled pulled by five dogs.

In addition to Madrid, Aragon (northeast), the region of Valencia (east), Castille-La Mancha (center) and Catalonia (northeast) were the areas most affected by this storm.