Shocking Images of Floods in Southern Spain – News

Local authorities have announced that torrential rains, causing floods and the closure of schools with hundreds of thousands of registered students, have affected the night of Wednesday to Thursday the southeast of the country. Spain.

Rainfall was particularly intense in the Valencia and Murcia regions, where the red alert was maintained on Thursday because of the "extreme risk" of storms and torrential rains.

The Valencian Meteorological Association (AVAMET) has released images of the collapsed walls of the city of Ontinyent (35,000 inhabitants), where the Clariano River overflowed, vehicles dragged by a stream of water to Moixent (4,000 inhabitants) or "railway lines transformed" into rivers "in Font de la Figuera (2,000 inhabitants).

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According to AVAMET, this was the highest rainfall recorded in Ontinyent, one of the most affected villages, since the collection of meteorological data in 1917.

Authorities in the Valencia region have ordered as a precaution the closure of schools in 84 municipalities, affecting more than 255,000 students.

In the region of Murcia, all schools, institutes and universities have closed in this territory of 45 municipalities.

The AEMET state meteorological agency maintains four provinces on red alert: Alicante, Valencia, Murcia and Almería, the latter in the southern region of Andalusia.

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(Photos: The country).

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