{"id":768124,"date":"2026-02-16T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/768124\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:35:13","slug":"tragedy-in-andalucia-after-92-year-old-man-is-killed-by-falling-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/768124\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy in Andalucia after 92-year-old man is killed by falling tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRAGEDY struck in Cordoba this weekend when a 92-year-old man was killed by a falling tree as he was trying to help others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gusty winds of up to 68km\/h hit Cordoba on Friday, leading to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has not been named by authorities, was driving in Palenciana when he got out of his vehicle to help another motorist move a tree that had fallen onto the road.<\/p>\n<p>During this attempt, another tree fell on him, causing serious injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police and paramedics swiftly arrived on the scene, and rushed the man to a nearby hospital in Cabra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/2026\/02\/16\/did-you-feel-it-4-3-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-southern-spain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Did you feel it? 4.3 magnitude earthquake rocks southern Spain \u2013 quickly followed by 14 aftershocks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man died the next morning as a result of his injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is the only casualty of Storm Oriana in Andalucia, the latest in a series of destructive storms to batter Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Another fatality was reported in Barcelona, where hurricane-force winds of up to 160km\/h struck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 46-year-old woman died after the roof of an industrial building collapsed during the storm, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/category\/other-news\/weather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRAGEDY struck in Cordoba this weekend when a 92-year-old man was killed by a falling tree as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[10957,2000,299,18104,104,225042,18106,142204],"class_list":["post-768124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-death","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-news-spain","tag-spain","tag-storm-oriana","tag-the-olive-press","tag-tree"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116080104300278426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768124","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=768124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}