3 die after floods wash away brigde in C Spain
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E-mail Xinhua, April 2, 2013
Three people died this Monday after a bridge over the river Yeguas in central Spain was washed away by flooding waters.
The three victims, including a couple and a young man, were on board two separate vehicles, a car and a lorry, driving along the N-420 road between the cities of Ciudad Real and Cordoba.
Persistent rainfall over the closing days of March has led to rising water levels in many of the country's rivers and reservoirs, according to data supplied by the Automatic Systems of Hydrological Information.
The Pisuerga river has seen its water level grown by a meter in less than 24 hours in the latest rainfall, putting the city of Valladolid in the province of Castilla-Leon, which has around 500,000 inhabitants, under threat.
Meanwhile the city of Zamora, which is the smallest provincial capital in Spain, is also threatened by the rising water levels of the River Duero, while the N-113 main road between Pamplona and Madrid has been cut for several days as a result of the nearby river Ebro bursting its banks.
Spain's Civil Protection organization has advised drivers to try and avoid areas with flooding.
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