In Spain, showers caused floods: there are victims

Livne rains brought to the Pyrenee Peninsula with a powerful cyclone from the Atlantic Ocean forced Spain authorities to introduce a state of emergency in seven of 17 autonomous regions.

Especially strongly the riot of the elements in Catalonia. In the area of ​​Girona, a woman died, who washed off the stream of water into the river. In addition, two people who were in a car with a stream were hospitalized and survived thanks to the help of rescuers.

In the northeast of the region, traffic on many highways is closed. Road management asks motorists not to use transport without extreme need. Schools are everywhere closed.

In Barcelona, ​​in many places, rainwater covered with a meter layer of street and square, floods the cellars and the first floors of buildings. The fifth metro branch in the city does not work, as several stations are flooded with water, RIA Novosti reports.

The rains spilled over Spain for the first time since spring, when the country began in the country for its modern history of drought. However, although precipitation will last a few more days, according to the calculations of weather forecasters, they will not cover an acute water deficiency in Spanish reservoirs.