Freezing winds, heavy snow and rain lashed parts of Spain Monday, killing two people, forcing the closure of schools and disrupting travel, officials said.
A 54-year-old homeless woman from Romania was found dead, apparently from hypothermia, on Monday morning at a park in Gandia on Spain's eastern Mediterranean shore, a spokesman for Gandia city hall said.
A 63-year-old Spanish man was found dead on Sunday afternoon in the central village of Pedro Bernardo, the village's mayor David Segovia said.
"He was lying on his property with a head injury caused by tiles which fell because of the snow," Bernardo told AFP.
Much of eastern Spain as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean were still on alert Monday after Storm Gloria hit Spain over the weekend.
In the eastern region of Valencia classes were cancelled for nearly 200,000 students after 194 municipalities decided to close their schools, the regional government of Valencia said.
The storm also forced the closure of the airport in Alicante on the eastern Mediterranean coast, Spanish airports operator Aena said.
The airport, which serves several popular resorts such as Benidorm, is Spain's fifth busiest.
Several roads and rail links were disrupted due to the bad weather which is expected to last until Wednesday.
Flooding, landslides kill six in Brazil
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 18, 2020 –
Flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rains have claimed six lives in southeast Brazil, firefighters said Saturday.
Footage on social media showed streets in Espirito Santo state turned into rivers and cars being swept away by raging, muddy water.
In one clip, the water almost reaches the roof of a gas station.
The fatalities happened in the towns of Iconha and Alfredo Chaves, with three deaths in each town. In the latter, two of the victims were elderly people who died after a landslide engulfed their home in mud.
Officials said that in just 24 hours, Alfredo Chaves recorded the rainfall it normally gets in the entire month of January.
The mayor of Iconha told the newspaper A Gazeta that nearly all of the town's shops were destroyed.
