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Sea ‘weed’ MORE than 120 kilos of hashish divided into four packages were found by Customs officers floating in the sea off Motril.
Eight hurt FLOODED: Streets in Almuñecar after the heavy rain.
‘Disaster area’ call after storms strike ALMUÑECAR Mayor Trinidad Herrera is to ask the national government to declare the town a ‘disaster area’ after it was hit by severe storms.
The decision was made after almost 90 per cent of the subtropical fruit harvest in some areas was wiped out by hailstones and torrential rain.
Herrera said the council will offer information about state aid and how to apply for it to those affected by floods following the downpours that swept across the Axarquia last week. In Almuñecar floods and hail were reported. Two families had to be Two helicopters and a plane were evacuated from their deployed to assist due to the steepness homes and crops were of the area, sources at Infoca said. damaged. A total of 40 people had to be Around 90 per cent of evacuated from the Piedras Blancas the sub-tropical fruit area, eight of them from their homes, production in the Rio Seco, fearing the flames would reach them. Rio Verde and Rio Jate Firefighters managed to put out the fields was lost, according fire after approximately an hour with to the Environmental damage to homes avoided. Councillor Luis Aragon.
40 evacuated in Frigiliana fire EIGHT people were evacuated from their homes because of a fire in Frigiliana. The blaze, the cause of which is unknown, originated in the rural area of Cerro de La Loma and affected mainly bushes and fruit trees in a hectare of land. Infoca firefighters worked with members of the Provincial Firefighter Consortium to put out the blaze.
EIGHT people, two of them under 18, were admitted to the Santa Ana hospital in Motril with minor injuries following a crash involving two cars on the N340 road.
Taking over THE Conservative Popular Party has taken over the government of Canillas del Aceituno following a vote of no confidence in the Socialist party.
Nearly No. 1 MARO BEACH in Nerja came second in a competition organised by Spanish TV channel Antena 3 to find the best beach in Spain. La Granadella in Alicante came first.
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