Spain’s latest floods: Emergency teams scramble to find Spanish flood survivors as debris cuts across communities

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Spain has come to terms with the deadly impact of floods that have ravaged communities in the south over the past 24 hours.

The last update from the authorities in Valencia at 19:30 CET (18:30 GMT) put The death toll in the region is 92with two other people killed in the neighboring region of Castilla-La Mancha.

A 71-year-old British man also died hours after he was rescued from his home in Alhaurin de la Torre in Malaga, according to Andalusia’s regional leader.

Our correspondent Nicky Schiller has just landed in Valencia and says the rain has receded, but Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez earlier urged residents in the area, as well as in Andalusia and Catalonia, to remain cautious as red and orange weather warnings remain in place across large areas of the territory.

Territorial Policy Minister Ángel Víctor Torres said it was still unclear how many people were missing after more than a year’s worth of rain fell in southern Spain in just eight hours on Tuesday.

And as King Felipe VI spoke of the “enormous destruction” caused by the floods, Torres announced that Spain would observe three days of mourning from tomorrow until sunday. In the meantime, search and rescue operations will continue.

We’ll wrap up our coverage of the Spain floods soon, but you can read more about how events unfolded in our story here and our European reporter Laura Gozzi brought it together testimonies of people affected by floods.

You can also learn more about the weather phenomenon that caused the flash floods our handy video explainer.