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Heavy rains left two people dead and one missing in Spain
Spain, which has been suffering for months from a historic drought, is witnessing heavy rains that have killed two people and left another missing, while a ten-year-old boy managed to escape drowning by sheltering in a tree. The Madrid region and the Castilla-La Mancha region (center) were affected, as heavy rains fell from Sunday night to Monday, and the head of the Castilla-La Mancha region, Emiliano García Paige, announced on Monday morning, “two people died in the region.” He added that the emergency services in this area south of Madrid had carried out a total of “1,900 interventions” in the past few hours “in the province of Toledo”, one in Casarubbios del Monte and the other in Bargas, due to these bad weather conditions. X”, formerly known as Twitter, without giving further details about the circumstances of these events. The deaths. Refugees also remained “on the roof of their homes” in two areas near Toledo waiting to be rescued by a helicopter sent by the authorities of the neighboring area. The latter said that it was near Madrid A man is also still missing, after his car was swept away by a flooded river at dawn in the municipality of Aldea del Fresno, west of the Spanish capital.Madrid authorities said the 12-year-old, who was also missing at first, was eventually rescued after being found. Shelter on a tree.In Aldea del Fresno, one of the municipalities hardest hit by this bad weather, several bridges collapsed and torrents poured in from Mud from the bottom of the river, and caused the death of many cars, according to an AFP photographer at the scene, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez launched an “appeal to citizens to continue to act with caution.” – Blocking roads and closing trains. – In the affected areas, many roads have been cut. Rail traffic, temporarily suspended since Sunday, remained severely disrupted, especially between Madrid and Andalusia and on the Mediterranean coast. In Madrid, this heavy rain also led to the temporary closure of several metro lines on Monday morning. Despite the rain, the National Meteorological Agency calmed down somewhat on Monday, as it kept seven regions on alert, including Madrid, Castile-La Mancha, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Basque Country, home to seven million people, to work remotely and avoid unnecessary travel in the country. Capital. “, which was very crowded to get to on Monday morning.” A loud beep, unprecedented in Spain, tells them to stay indoors. Citizens can apply the necessary measures”, estimates Mr. Chevet, in response to the criticism raised, on Monday. Through this mass message. Spain, a country on the front line of global warming and which threatens desertification of 75% of its territory, regularly experiences rains torrential at the end of summer and in autumn, which struggle to penetrate the ground and cause riverbeds to suddenly swell, a phenomenon that meteorologists call a “dana” (“isolated depression at high levels”), sometimes with disastrous consequences. 2018, 13 people died on the Balearic island of Majorca. du-vab/mg/ib
