00:00Officials ordered the evacuation of hundreds of homes near Malaga in southern Spain after
00:06heavy rains caused riverbanks to burst, unleashing flash floods.
00:11Firefighters were searching for a missing couple in Sevilla on Tuesday morning and found
00:16the body of a woman near the area where their vehicle disappeared.
00:21Andalusia's Interior Chief Antonio San said that 19 rivers in the region were on high
00:25alert for flooding.
00:28A total of 40 highways across the region, as well as some rail lines, had to be closed
00:33due to rising waters, and school classes were suspended in 16 municipalities.
00:39Spain, which has suffered from a prolonged drought in recent years, has received steady
00:43rainfall especially in its south for the last two weeks, and the latest storm proved too
00:49much for reservoirs and riverbanks.
00:52Scientists and government officials link these swings between extreme dry and wet spells
00:56to climate change, which has also produced increasingly hot summers in Spain.
