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Deadly Spanish floods drive home threat of Mediterranean ‘petrol can’

Torrential rains were driven in part by dangerous rise in sea temperatures

Flash floods that ravaged southern and eastern Spain have underscored the lethal threat from rising temperatures that are turning the Mediterranean Sea into a “petrol can”, experts say.

Torrential rain centred on the Valencia region killed at least 205 people this week in one of the worst natural disasters in Spain’s modern history, leaving rescue workers searching for the missing in shell-shocked towns strewn with rubble and upturned cars.

Spanish emergency authorities said 202 bodies had been recovered in the Valencia region alone, with two in the Castilla La Mancha region and one more in Andalusia, agencies reported. Officials warned that more rains were expected in the coming days.

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