{"id":660683,"date":"2025-12-29T17:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660683\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:15:15","slug":"spain-floods-kill-three-as-rivers-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660683\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain floods kill three as rivers overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\"><strong>Search teams have recovered the bodies of two men who went missing after heavy rains triggered <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/california-flood-risk-grows-as-la-evacuations-continue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flooding<\/a> in southern Spain, officials reported, bringing the death toll to three.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Spain\u2019s Guardia Civil police said on Monday that the body of one man was found about three kilometres (two miles) from where he had been swept away on Sunday by a swollen river near Granada, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/eb5299ec6a42\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Spanish television reported that the 20-year-old was carried away while trying to cross a riverbed on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The body of another man, whose van was also swept away, was found in the province of Malaga, the mayor of Alhaurin el Grande, Antonio Bermudez, said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">A second passenger of the van was found dead on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The two men, in their early 50s, were &#8220;lifelong friends,&#8221; Bermudez said, describing the tragedy as a &#8220;sad and dark Christmas for the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The town declared on Tuesday an official day of mourning and cancelled all public events &#8220;because no one in Alhaurin el Grande feels like celebrating anything at this time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Spain has been strongly affected by the climate change in recent years, experiencing longer heatwaves and more frequent episodes of heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Floods in October 2024 killed more than 230 people, mostly in the eastern Valencia region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Search teams have recovered the bodies of two men who went missing after heavy rains triggered flooding in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,16835,17937,21011,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-660683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-floods","11":"tag-heavy-rain","12":"tag-river","13":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115803987832366224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660683","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=660683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}