Shocking moment cars are swept away & roads are turned into rivers as flash floods leave several missing in Spain

SHOCKING footage shows cars being swept distant and roads turned into rivers arsenic flash floods onslaught Spain.

At slightest 7 radical are missing and 1 idiosyncratic has died aft regions of Spain, including fashionable Costa vacation resorts, were battered by storms and torrential rain.

The flooding has caused havoc, moving from the provinces of Malaga successful the southbound to Valencia successful the east.

Videos shared by Spanish broadcasters showed floodwater rising into the little levels of homes and adjacent carrying cars done the street.

Drivers besides posted videos showing the horrific conditions connected the roads, with galore either leaving their vehicles oregon coming to a halt arsenic the tempest rages astir them. 

A lorry operator has disappeared successful L’Alcudia successful the eastbound seashore state of Valencia and a fig of radical are unaccounted for successful Letur.

Emergency services workers backed by drones were looking for six radical are missing successful the aftermath of flash floods successful the town, the cardinal government's typical successful Castilla-La Mancha told Spanish nationalist television TVE.

"The precedence is to find these people," she added.

Flash flooding successful Letur, considered 1 of the astir beauteous places successful the state of Albacete, besides near astir 30 radical trapped successful their homes.

Meanwhile, the full state of Valencia - which has a nonmigratory colonisation of astir 5.5 cardinal - were told they should debar immoderate question this evening, arsenic it was confirmed the tempest had claimed its archetypal fatality there.

The determination authorities liable for the country said it had activated a Civil Protection ‘ES-alert’ informing designed to pass radical successful locations affected by an exigency oregon catastrophe done their mobile phones.

The antheral who mislaid his beingness lived successful Massanassa connected the outskirts of the metropolis of Valencia.

Neighbours said helium had got trapped successful a assistance arsenic helium went down to a flooded underground car parkland beneath his flat to cheque connected his vehicle.

The adverse weather is amongst immoderate of the astir utmost the state has faced successful caller years.

In different places, rescue services utilized helicopters to assistance radical from houses and cars to safety.

And a high-speed bid with 276 passengers derailed successful the confederate portion of Andalusia, though nary 1 was injured, the determination authorities said successful a statement.

Twelve flights owed to onshore astatine Valencia airdrome person been diverted to different cities successful Spain owed to the dense rainfall and beardown winds, Spanish airdrome relation Aena said.

Another 10 flights which were owed to depart oregon get astatine the airdrome were cancelled.

Meanwhile, Letur's politician Sergio Marin described the concern arsenic “catastrophic” arsenic firefighters and police connected the crushed and successful a chopper searched for 4 radical said to beryllium “unaccounted for.”

The flash flood occurred astir 1pm section time, causing h2o to participate homes successful the municipality centre and washing distant astatine slightest a twelve vehicles including a ample achromatic van which lone came to a halt aft it was smashed into a location and trapped betwixt 2 walls successful the raging water.

Mr Marin told Spanish TV: “We couldn’t person predicted thing similar this was going to happen. It’s a large catastrophe.

“Emergency responders including a police chopper are inactive searching for astir 4 radical who we haven’t been capable to relationship for successful the flood area.

“Some were successful a conveyance and others were successful their homes. There’s been a batch of harm but we’re conscionable hoping everyone is good and determination are nary idiosyncratic casualties.”

Heavy rainfall caused a tiny stream successful the municipality of conscionable implicit 1,200 inhabitants to flood its banks.

Elsewhere, successful the Spanish metropolis of Almería cars person been destroyed by elephantine golf ball-sized hailstones that fell from the entity arsenic a convulsive tempest passed implicit past night. 

And 1 British expat watched aghast arsenic cars became boats successful the swollen River Guadalhorce successful Alora adjacent Malaga.

As the 2 vehicles were carried distant bobbing up and down successful the water, helium said: “Oh my God” earlier adding sarcastically: “That is our tiny small stream now.”

Two radical had to beryllium rescued by firefighters utilizing ropes to usher them done the flood h2o aft becoming trapped successful their caravan successful a agrarian spot adjacent the municipality of Pizarra astir 20 miles from Malaga.

An exigency rescue coordination centre for Malaga state said it had recorded astir 300 incidents since the tempest began past night.

Storms are forecast to proceed done the week until Thursday, according to the country's weather service.