Images from Costa Blanca showed submerged streets, overflowing rivers, and fast-moving water barrelling across dry fields before crashing onto highways.
British holidaymakers hoping to leave behind the rain by heading to Spain have been met with torrential downpours, hail, strong winds and flash floods.
Several regions across south-east Spain 's have been hit with torrential rain, hail and strong winds causing flash floods and forcing the closure of roads. Pictured: A car is seen half submerged in waters in the city of Murcia Reports said the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia had been especially impacted. According to the Eltiempo news outlet, over 60 millimetres of rain had fallen around the city of Murcia, leaving vehicles trapped.One picture showed a car almost completely submerged on a roundabout.
Towns like Yecla, on Murcia's north-east border with Alicante, are among the places where high temperatures and blue skies have given way to amazing scenes of hailstones and gusting winds in the past few hours. Bad sea conditions on the Costa Blanca ahead of this week's flooding were blamed for a string of drownings in the province of Alicante last week and over the weekend.
In one heartbreaking incident, three friends were caught in a flash flood and swept away - after sharing a final embrace.
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