Fresh Spain floods sweep away dozens of cars near Girona

New floods person deed the portion of Girona successful north-eastern Spain, sweeping distant astir 30 cars successful the municipality of Cadaqués, according to Spanish media reports.

Videos posted by a section writer showed a torrent of h2o gushing down the thoroughfare and a heap of cars blocking a span aboriginal connected Friday.

No casualties were reported successful the latest circular of flooding to deed the country.

More than 200 radical were killed past week, astir successful the Valencia area, successful 1 of the worst floods successful Europe this century.

The catastrophe ignited intense anger astatine the authorities for not issuing exigency alerts sooner.

Flooding successful Cadaqués successful the aboriginal hours of Friday greeting caused astir 30 vehicles to heap up nether a bridge, Catalonia's occurrence work said connected X. No 1 was injured oregon trapped, the exigency responders added.

More perchance unsafe upwind is expected successful the portion overnight.

Catalonia's meteorological work issued a rainfall informing from Friday evening until Saturday day for the country of Alt Emporda, wherever Cadaqués is located. The upwind bureau warned rainfall strength could transcend 20 mm (0.7 inches) successful 30 minutes.

The bureau recorded 76.8 mm (3 inches) of rainfall successful Cadaqués connected 7 and 8 November, with much than 100 mm (4 inches) logged successful 2 different towns nearby.

Spain received 72% much rainfall from 1 October to 5 November than the mean worth for that clip period, according to Aemet, Spain's upwind agency.

The rainfall, which experts said was intensified by clime change, led to flash floods that trapped radical successful their cars.