Spain floods live: Barcelona hit by ‘extreme danger’ rain warning as airport flooded

Footage has shown severe flooding in the town of Viladecans just outside of Barcelona.

Police spokesman Ricardo Gutierrez told reporters that so far some 50 vehicles had been found in the Aldaia municipality, and no bodies had been discovered there.

He said soldiers, police and firefighters, some wearing wetsuits, searched a huge shopping centre’s underground car park for possible victims. They used a small boat and spotlights to move around in the huge structure with vehicles submerged in at least 3ft of murky water.

Unions and leftwing cultural associations have announced a protest in Valencia on Saturday to call for regional president Carlos Mazon, of the conservative People’s Party, to step down.

A daily protest in Madrid outside the headquarters of Sanchez’s Socialist party drew more people on Sunday, about 600, due to anger over the floods, according to El Pais newspaper.

Opposition politicians accused the left-wing central government of acting too slowly to warn residents and send in rescuers, while Madrid has said regional authorities were responsible for civil protection.

Spanish rescue teams have not found any casualties so far in Valencia’s Bonaire shopping mall underground car park, the interior ministry said on Monday.

The parking was flooded during the country’s worst flash floods in modern history last week that left at least 217 people dead.

The ministry said work was continuing in the parking lot, which has 5,700 parking spaces, to find out if there may be fatalities.

Rescue teams are now focusing their efforts on underground car parks, garages and basements that were flooded within hours.

The Spanish municipality of Gava just outside of Barcelona has suffered severe flooding as extreme weather hits the Catalonia area, footage has shown.