Six days after the floods which left at least 217 dead in Spain, emergency services continued their search in the Valencia region on Monday, while downpours fell on Barcelona, without causing any casualties.
If the Spanish meteorological agency (Aemet) officially assured Monday morning that the situation of “meteorological crisis” had ended in the Valencia region, the concern moved some 350 km further north, to Barcelona, placed in red alert.
Torrential rains led to cancellations or very significant delays for around fifty flights at the airport. Seventeen flights had to be diverted. High-speed train traffic between Barcelona and Madrid was also disrupted.
Impressive images, widely relayed on social networks, also showed vehicles blocked on a highway near the Catalan capital or flooded streets in neighboring towns. The Aemet red alert ended at 2 p.m.
Last week’s devastating floods left at least 217 dead: 213 in the Valencia region alone, three in Castile-la-Mancha and one in Andalusia.
