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Issue 076 26th Oct - 1st Nov
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Cleanup efforts
Body on the beach
by Jose Artur
Karl Smallman/Euro Weekly News
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OWNS across Andalucia have begun clearing the damage and debris left behind in the wake of floods which swept through the region last weekend. Locals were joined by volunteers in the cleaning e ff o r t s a n d a t t e m p t s t o salvage belongings while council workers, electricians and plumbers attempted to get basic services up and running. The total cost of the damage is estimated to be around €32 million, according to insurance companies. Parts of Malaga Province have been declared a catastrophe zone since the storms hit. The storm caused more than €1 million in damage in Estepona alone, according to local council estimates. O ff i c i a l s i n t h e t o w n
FLOOD DAMAGE: Locals have been working to clean up flood-hit towns. said 25 roads equalling a length of 94 kilometres in total have been affected. Dozens of homes in the Loma Pontezuela and El Padron Alto areas of Estepona remained without electricity yesterday (Thursday). Workers with the Endesa power company have been called in to repair
damage that included toppled pylons, with 35 in total damaged in some way. The flash floods saw some villages left underwater when they struck last Sunday. Cars were also swept away and some people were left stranded, with emergency services
despatched to airlift trapped residents from their homes. Almost 400 litres per sqm of rainwater fell in parts of Malaga Province in the space of 24 hours, the largest amount ever recorded in the area according to S p a i n ’s AEMET Met Office. The storms were the
fifth major downpours so far this year and follow storms in Mallorca which left 13 people dead. Floodwater tore through the Arab Baths in Ronda damaging walls and causing an estimated €98,000 in damage to the site, parts of which date from the 13th century.
THE Guardia Civil is investigating the cause of death of a man who was found on a beach in Casares in Malaga on Tuesday afternoon. Believed to be about 50, the deceased was not carrying any kind of identification, and there were no immediate signs of violence. Officers received reports of a body floating about 100 metres from the coast between Casares and Manilva, at around 6pm. But when the emergency services arrived, the body had already been washed onto the shores of Ancha de Casares beach. Once the judicial authority ordered the removal of the deceased male, he was transferred to the Legal Medical Institute of Malaga, where forensic experts will try to determine the cause of death and find information that will help identify him.