A fisherman from the village of L´Ampolla (Tarragona) found the body of one of the three people who went missing after their 4x4 was swept away by floods as they were returning to their holiday home in Cambrils on Tuesday night.
The body of 49 year old Enrique Salvadó Fuentes (photo), the father of the 14 year old boy who managed to escape, was found in the estuary of the Ebro river in an area known locally as Punta del Fangar, 50km from where he went missing.
Two rescue teams are involved in the search for the boy´s mother and uncle which has been extended to cover the 65km of coastline, and to a distance of ten nautical miles out to sea, between Cambrils and the whole of the Ebro estuary.
There is still no news about the 57 year old farm workers from Tauste (Zaragoza) who was washed away after falling into the río Arbe on Tuesday evening.
More storms last night left several families stranded in their seafront homes in the villages of Nules and Moncofa (Castellón).
The Young Farmers Association (ASAJA) estimate that recent rain and hail storms in the provinces of Castellón and Valencia, affecting around 20,000 hectares, have caused losses of more than €50 million.
The provinces of Zaragoza and Navarra have also been seriously affected by the recent bad weather. In Zaragoza stretches of the A-127 between Gallur and Tauste, as well as the A-1302 in Mallen, remain closed. In Navarra, the NA-125 (Tudela), the NA-126 (Fustiñana), the NA-134 (Arguedas), and the NA-5200 (Buñuel), are similarly affected.
Searches continue for missing flood victims Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Rescue teams are continuing the search for three people missing after their 4x4 was swept away late last night by flood waters (photo) as they were driving home along the camino de Vilafortuny in the village of Cambrils (Tarragona). The only passenger to escape from the vehicle was a 14 year old boy who managed to pull himself out through the back passenger window with the help of his uncle. Local police were called to the scene where they found the vehicle with nobody inside. It is feared that the boy´s missing uncle and parents, having also escaped through the car windows, were swept out to sea. The family is from Andorra but were spending their summer holidays, as usual, in the popular coastal resort just south of Salou.
Heavy storms, with rainfall up to 194 litres/ m2 on Spain´s east coast, caused chaos across northern Spain yesterday with flood damage reported in Castellón, Navarra, Zaragoza, Tarragona, where several villages are cut off and without electricity. Galicia has also been affected, but to a lesser extent. Rescue teams are also still looking for a man who went missing after falling into the río Arbe as he was about to be evacuated from his home in the village of Tauste (Zaragoza) as night fell yesterday evening.
