Two violent storms Laurence and Martinho, practically one after the other, hit the Iberian Peninsula. They led to the creation of vast floods in Spain. At least three people were killed as a result of the element. Portugal also faces the effects of storms. The authorities reported that three people were injured in the floods.
Laurence hit Spain on Wednesday. According to local media, it's the fourth stormwhich hit this country within 12 days. She brought heavy rainfall and gusty wind. Heavy rains are expected in the central, southern and western part of the country. Warnings issued by the Spanish meteorological services Aemet are in force in these regions.
The inhabitants of Spanish did not manage to clean up the destruction caused by the storm of Laurence, and the next one hit this country. According to local media, the situation is difficult.
Fatal victims in Spain
As Ruben Rivera, the mayor of the commune of Constantina, located in the province of Seville in the southwest of Spain on Wednesday, as a result of the element, a marriage was killed as a result of a car that traveled by car during a storm. Their vehicle was pushed by a strong wind to the Guadalbácar River. The mayor announced two days of mourning in the commune.
The third fatal victim is a man whose body was found on Wednesday morning in the riverbed of the Dos Torres river in Cordoba.
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Storms in Portugal. They are wounded
The storms also caused a lot of destruction in Portugal. There, as a result of a strong wind, at least three people were injured. In the western part of this country there was a flooding. Among the victims in Portugal is a resident of Sintra, a resident of Podlizbor, who was wounded as a result of a tree overturning. The wounded state is referred to as very severe. Until midnight, the Portuguese rescue services intervened over 500 times, including removing branches, trees and metal objects from the roads lying on the road. In the Oliveira commune to Hospital in the central part of the country, a strong wind overturned part of the stand at the stadium. Due to storms, the Lisbon authorities began evacuations of the homeless from the streets of the Portuguese capital. Some of them were placed in makeshift lodgings at four metro stations.
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