Death toll from Spain floods rises to four

REDOVAN, Spain: Two more people died as torrential rain and flash floods battered southeastern Spain, raising the death toll to four as the storm caused havoc for travellers and forced 3,500 people from their homes, officials said Friday .

Several hours later an emergency services helicopter spotted the body of a 36-year-old man in the region of Andalusia who had been reported missing and feared dead due to the flooding, a local emergency services spokeswoman said. His empty car had been found earlier in the day. Parts of southeastern Spain have since Wednesday suffered some of the heaviest rainfall on record, which has caused chaos on the roads, cutting public transport and prompting rivers to burst their banks, flooding homes.Floodwaters reached up to people's knees in the town of Redovan in the region of Valencia and residents used buckets to try and empty the water from their homes, according to an AFP photographer at the scene.

Footage broadcast on Spanish media showed emergency services workers on a jet ski inspecting a flooded highway tunnel and brown water rushing through streets, along with cars that had been washed away.The regional airport in Almeria was closed for several hours Friday because flooding made it difficult for workers to reach it, forcing the cancellation of two flights and the diversion of two others to to Malaga, Spanish airports operator AENA said.

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