Malaga City Council has deployed an unprecedented emergency response to rising floodwaters in the region, with floodwaters reaching “several meters in height”, as per local reports.
The usually picturesque holiday favourite for Brits was thrown into chaos after heavy rains lashed the tourism region in southern Spain. The national weather bureau has issued a red alert for “extraordinary danger” across 27 municipalities in the Malaga region.
In addition to the red alert for Sol and Guadalhorce, the State Meteorological Agency has also issued an orange alert for rain in the regions of Ronda, Antequera and Axarquía. Orange warnings are now in effect along the Granada coast and the Almería regions of Valle del Almanzora and Los Vélez.
Yellow warnings remain in place for the coast, Andévalo and Condado de Huelva, the entire province of Cádiz, and the Antequera area in Málaga, where a coastal alert is also in place.