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Deadly snowstorms cause chaos across Spain | Al Jazeera

snowstorms cause chaos across Spain

Snowstorms across much of Spain left four people dead and caused chaos across much of the country, trapping motorists and closing the capital’s air and rail links, with more snowfall to come.

The bodies of a man and woman were recovered by the southern Andalusia region emergency service after their car was washed away by a flooded river near the town of Fuengirola.

The Interior Ministry said a 54-year-old man was also found dead in Madrid under a big pile of snow.

A homeless man died of hypothermia in the northern city of Zaragoza, the local police department reported.

On Friday, Madrid experienced its heaviest snowfalls since 1971 after what the AEMET weather agency described as “exceptional and most likely historic” conditions caused by Storm Filomena.

It warned that another 20cm (nearly 8 inches) snowfall was expected on Saturday in Madrid and central Spain’s lower plains, with up to 50cm (20 inches) at higher altitudes.

1 comment :

  1. La borrasca Filomena causa estragos a su paso por España dejando un balance que, además de las incontables complicaciones logísticas y los daños materiales, ya cuenta con cuatro personas fallecidas a causa del temporal de nieve, viento y lluvia.

    El último de los decesos se produjo en Zarzalejos, un pequeño municipio de la Comunidad de Madrid donde un hombre de 54 años de edad falleció sepultado por la nieve.

    "Ha aparecido una persona fallecida en Zarzalejo sepultada bajo la nieve", confirmó el delegado del Gobierno en la Comunidad de Madrid, José Manuel Franco, durante una entrevista concedida a la radio pública de la región.

    Madrid sufre desde la tarde del viernes 8, una situación de colapso que obligó a cerrar el Aeropuerto de Barajas —el más transitado del país— al mismo tiempo que se paralizaba prácticamente toda la red de transporte público e incluso efectivos del ejército se veían obligados a rescatar de madrugada a decenas de conductores atrapados en sus vehículos.

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