Spain's flooding nightmare goes on as "extreme" rain hits Barcelona

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Spain rescue, assistance efforts proceed aft flooding

Spain rescue, assistance efforts proceed arsenic vexation rises aft deadly flooding 01:44

Barcelona, Spain — The recurrent storms successful eastbound Spain that led to monolithic flooding past week and killed astatine slightest 217 people, almost each of them successful nan eastbound Valencia region, dumped rainfall further northbound Monday connected Barcelona, prompting authorities to suspend commuter obstruction services and reroute flights arsenic immoderate highways were inundated.

Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente said he was suspending each commuter trains successful northeast Catalonia, a region pinch 8 cardinal people, astatine nan petition of civilian protection officials. Cell phones successful Barcelona screeched pinch an alert for "extreme and continued rainfall" connected nan confederate outskirts of nan city. The alert urged group to debar immoderate usually barren gorges aliases canals.

Puente said nan rains had forced aerial postulation controllers to alteration nan people of 15 flights operating astatine Barcelona's airport, located connected nan confederate flank of nan city, and nan nationalist airdrome usability later said a full of 50 flights astatine nan hub were cancelled connected Monday.

Destruction successful Valencia aft deadly floods

Maps and outer images uncover flood devastation successful Valencia

Several highways were closed owed to flooding, pinch images posted connected societal media showing vehicles on a low-lying conception of 1 artery partially submerted.

Classes were cancelled successful Tarragona, a metropolis successful confederate Catalonia astir halfway betwixt Barcelona and Valencia, aft a reddish alert for rains was issued.

Anger boils complete astatine King Felipe successful devastated Valencia

Meanwhile, successful beleaguered Valencia, nan hunt continued for bodies wrong houses, parking garages and thousands of wrecked cars still strewn astir nan streets, connected highways, and successful canals that channeled past week's deluge into populated areas.

Citizens, volunteers and immoderate 10,000 soldiers and constabulary were deployed to thief successful nan gargantuan clean-up effort arsenic residents effort to excavation their homes and possessions retired of a heavy furniture of mud and debris.

A crowd of angry survivors hurled insults and mud astatine King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia arsenic they visited nan hard-hit Valencia suburb of Paiporta connected Sunday.

The crowd shouted "Get out!" and "Killers" among different insults arsenic nan monarch and different officials tried to talk to residents, prompting bodyguards to unfastened umbrellas to protect nan VIPs arsenic nan crowd of respective twelve launched mud their way.

Many Valencians person been infuriated by some nan government's consequence to nan disaster and nan deficiency of warnings that specified an inundation was coming. Some 3,000 residents successful Valencia were still without energy and net entree was constricted connected Monday. There person been sporadic reports of looting, too, pinch astatine slightest 20 group arrested from Sunday nighttime into Monday.

Spain's Mediterranean seashore is buffeted by autumn storms that tin origin flooding each year, but this twelvemonth brought nan astir destructive flash floods successful caller memory.

Scientists nexus nan standard of nan disaster to climate change.

Link betwixt deadly upwind events and manmade ambiance alteration recovered successful caller research 04:07

Human-caused ambiance alteration has doubled nan likelihood of storms for illustration past week's deluge successful Valencia, according to a partial study issued connected Oct. 31 by nan World Weather Attribution group, which is made up of dozens of world scientists who study global warming's domiciled successful utmost weather.

Spain had suffered done drought conditions for almost 2 years, which made nan flooding overmuch worse because nan parched crushed was excessively difficult to sorb nan abrupt downpour past week.