Heavy rainfall in Andalusia prompted hundreds of emergency service responses and left three people dead, regional authorities said.<\/p>\n
The first victim was found in Alhaur\u00edn El Grande in M\u00e1laga province, after disappearing with along with another person as their van was swept away by a river. <\/p>\n
Guardia Civil, fire brigade, Civil Protection and other emergency services conducted search and rescue operations. The body of the second person was recovered at midday. The deceased were aged 53 and 54.<\/p>\n
The body of an 18-year-old missing in \u00cdllora, Granada province, was also found.<\/p>\n
M\u00e1laga recorded the highest number of incidents with 343, followed by Granada with 58 and Almer\u00eda with 48. Other Andalusian provinces recorded occasional incidents.<\/p>\n
The most frequent incidents included flooded homes, garages, and streets, road closures, vehicles trapped by water and mud accumulation, and rockslides, particularly in rural and mountainous areas.<\/p>\n
The regional government activated the Emergency Plan for Flood Risk to coordinate resources and ensure public safety. Thirty-six Andalusian municipalities implemented territorial civil protection plans, primarily in provinces most affected by rainfall.<\/p>\n
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez called for caution in response to the situation.<\/p>\n
Emergency services continued to recommend extreme caution despite weather conditions easing and most warnings being deactivated. Authorities advised avoiding unnecessary travel and not crossing flooded areas or active watercourses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rainfall in Andalusia prompted hundreds of emergency service responses and left three people dead, regional authorities said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[11051,10957,12493,2000,299,7212,104,43897],"class_list":{"0":"post-660543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-bad-weather","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-emergency","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-rain","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-victims"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115803633944751781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}