One person has died and three are missing after a freak flash flood hit Spain and wreaked chaos in the region.
The freak weather comes a day after a tornado ripped through the party island of Ibiza, damaging buildings, uprooting hundreds of trees and leaving residents stranded.
The body of a 75-year-old man who disappeared in the Arenys de Mar municipality during Spain’s freak flash floods has been found.
He was discovered on a beach in the town of Caldes d’Estrac, 40 kilometres north of Barcelona, after being reported missing yesterday when he went to move his car which had been swept up by a swollen river, yesterday evening.
The man is the same civilian who emergency teams had searched for throughout the night, according to the regional Mossos d’Esquadra force.
Residents observe the destroyed cars with upturned bonnet’s during the flash floods across Spain
A tree collapses on to a parked car on the party island in Ibiza during the extreme weather conditions
Emergency services were deployed throughout the night to try and find people who had disappeared during the freak flash floods (poor weather conditions pictured in Sant Antonio, Spain)
It has also emerged that a 52-year-old man died in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat southwest of Barcelona after being run over by a train in an incident blamed on the storms.
Paramedics made an unsuccessful attempt to save his life. The exact circumstances of his death have yet to be made clear.
Meanwhile a mother and her grown-up son whose prefab home was swept away by a swollen river in the village of Vilaverd, 30 kilometres from the port of Tarragona, are feared dead. A helicopter and firefighters have now been involved in the search for the family.
Three workers were injured yesterday when a whirlwind uprooted their maintenance hut in the Ibizan holiday resort of Sant Antoni (pictured)
The number of people missing following freak flash floods in Spain overnight rose to four today.
Catalan Interior Minister Miquel Buch has now confirmed search teams are also looking two more missing people in L’Espluga de Francoli a 15-minute drive northwest of Vilaverd.
Villas and huyts are knocked by the winds (pictured) in the Ibiza island. But the damage is wide-spread across the country, with 37 flights which have been due to land or take off from Palma in Mallorca, being diverted, according to Spain’s airport authority Aena
The flooding is relentless and hit Costa Blanca hardest last month. Extreme weather conditions left seven people dead
Thousands of people have been left without electricity following the torrential rain in Catalonia. Seven have been left dead from the extreme weather conditions in Costa Blanca
The overturned car they were travelling in has been found in the River Francoli.
Nearly 25,000 were affected by power cuts while floods and landslides forced the closure of more than 40 roads in the north-east region of Catalonia.
The latest storms, which come on the back of freak flash floods last month which hit hardest in the Costa Blanca and left seven people dead, have also affected the Balearic Islands.
Three workers were injured yesterday when a whirlwind uprooted their maintenance hut in the Ibizan holiday resort of Sant Antoni, coinciding with the UK school half-term holidays.
A lightning bolt strikes the sky during the week’s of extreme stormy weather which is supposed to be Spain’s worst storm in 140 years. A British family told at the time how they had to be rescued by the army after becoming trapped in their holiday villa for 12 hours
Sun loungers pictured left, were seen strewn across the pool side, while holidaymakers (right) observed the aftermath of the tornado in the Ibiza party island Sant Antoni, Spain
An estimated 200 trees in the area were also uprooted.
Thirty-seven flights, which had been due to land or take off from Palma in Mallorca, have been diverted, according to Spain’s airport authority Aena.
The bad weather also caused problems for planes leaving and trying to land at Palma Airport in Majorca, leading to some delays and diversions.
The bad weather also caused problems for planes leaving and trying to land at Palma Airport in Majorca, leading to some delays and diversions
This morning parts of the north-east province of Girona were on red alert, with local authorities warning the river Ter could overflow its banks and advising locals to exercise ‘extreme caution’.
The seven victims of last month’s storms included a 66-year-old Dutchman whose body was found two days after he vanished on September 15 in Dolores in the province of Alicante.
A British family told at the time how they had to be rescued by the army after becoming trapped in their holiday villa for 12 hours.
A car is seen in flooded village of Arbeca, Spain, on Tuesday
A river flows through Arbeca in Spain bringing cars with it during a storm that ripped through the region
Streets are brought to a stand-still following the destructive weather conditions. Parts of the north-east province of Girona were on red alert, with local authorities warning the river Ter could overflow its banks and advising locals to exercise ‘extreme caution’ this morning.
Pictures show the destruction left behind following the poor weather conditions which have swept the island, last night and the early hours this morning
Paul and Angie Spencer, from Doncaster, had been staying in Alicante with their four children when a nearby river burst its banks.
Paul said after being rescued: ‘We knew we were in trouble when the waters rose higher than the kerbs.
‘Cars were streaming past, along with furniture, suitcases and even two people who tried to cross the road.
‘They just got swept away. Their screams were awful, we don’t know what happened to them.’
A helicopter was due to be mobilised this morning/yesterday morning to help in the search for the missing mum and son, believed to be aged around 70 and 40.
Regional Civil Protection chief Sergio Delgado confirmed: ‘Authorities are searching for two people believed to have been swept away in floods who were in a prefabricated bungalow as well as a person who has disappeared in the Arenys de Mar area.’
This comes just as a tornado tore through Ibiza’s party island of Sant Antoni, Spain, and left three people injured, last night and the early hours this morning.
Three men were inside a builder’s work-cabin when the tornado struck and were taken to the Policlinica Nuestra Señora del Rosario hospital for treatment.
A pickup dries in a flooded area in Redovan as torrential rains hit southeastern Spain overnight, sparking major flooding in the Valencia region, on September 12
Around 200 trees were uplifted from the ground and 69 incidents were reported in relation to the storm.
Torrential rain battered through the city of Alicante , Murcia, Valencia and western Andalucia regions, in September.
Around 35,000 were evacuated during the poor weather conditions which is said to have been Spain’s worst storm in 140 years.
People pushing a vehicle through a partially submerged car park as torrential rains hit Orihuela, last month
A brother and his sister saw their vehicle washed away and overturned in the city of Albacete on September 12.
Another man drowned after driving into a tunnel in Almería which had been closed due to flooding, while one man lost their life in a ravine in Baza, Granada.
A man, 58, was found dead in an area of Orihuela, Valencia, while the body of a 41-year-old man was located in La Matanza, Valencia, on September 14.
Last year 13 people died on Mallorca as intense rain caused rivers to overflow through streets and sweep away cars.