Two people who have disappeared after torrential rains in Catalonia

There are two people in Catalonia, in the northeast of Spain, after the torrential rains that fell tonight on Saturday, July 12 at night, causing occasional floods and the interruption of rail traffic for several hours.

“We are looking for two people in Cubelos”, a commune of 17,000 inhabitants located 50 kilometers from Barcelona, firefighters said in a message posted at night on the social network X.

“According to the first information, Foix’s flood led them to flood”, which flows to the Mediterranean, he added, specifying that the research system referred to “the shores” of the river and “their mouth.”

The region on red alert

This announcement occurs while the northeast of the country was affected by the rains of Diluvian on Saturday afternoon, especially in Catalonia, where the authorities triggered a red alert, with the sending of telephone messages to the inhabitants.

These heavy rains led to floods, especially in a hospital in Barcelona, which had to reject the entry of new patients after being the victim of an electricity.

At Barcelona airport, a plane that had just taken off to the United States had to go back, the aircraft’s nose was damaged by hail, according to aerial drivers.

More than 70 care

This bad weather pushed the railway company to suspend traffic traffic for several hours throughout Catalonia, both for high -speed trains and for regional and suburban trains.

In this region, emergency services attended more than 70 people, but none in serious condition, depending on emergency services. The red alert, which had been released around 5:00 pm, rose around 7:00 pm

In addition to Catalonia, several regions of the north and east of Spain were affected by these heavy rains, including Aragon, where the soldiers of the Military Emergency Unit (UMU) and the Community of Valencia were deployed.

This region had been affected at the end of October by a tragic episode of torrential rains that left 227 dead. The authorities, especially regional, had been criticized for their lack of preparation and response capacity.