Europe floods: Houses washed away as deadly storms hit France, Spain and Italy
Several dead and others missing after torrential rain
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Your support makes all the difference.Several people have died and others are missing after torrential rain caused flooding across western Europe.
Three people have died as a result of storms and floods in France this week, while two people were killed by flash floods in Italy on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, police in Spain said they found the body of a man on a beach at Arenys de Mar, hours after he was reported missing from a nearby town.
Firefighters also said they were searching for an elderly woman and her son who were staying in a prefabricated house in Vilaverd, a small town close to Barcelona, when it was washed away after the nearby river burst its banks.
Ten departments in southern France have been placed on orange alert as France’s national weather authority said 12cm of rain had fallen in less than three hours in the Bezier area of the Herault department. Rainfall reached 16.5cn in 24 hours in the city of Beziers.
In addition to the two people missing from the prefabricated house, a car with two people in it was swept away in the same region and the passengers are missing.
In Italy, a taxi driver drowned after his car was swept off a bridge in the Piedmont region. His passenger was reportedly found alive clinging to a tree.
Meanwhile an 81 year old man died when floodwater overturned his car in the same region.
Spanish authorities said the rainfall caused power cuts affecting 20,000 people, while the police said 40 roads in the Catalonia region were cut off. Several rivers burst their banks and flooded nearby streets.
Seven people were killed in floods in Spain in September.
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