The regions of the Alt and Baix Empordà (Girona) have suffered this Friday morning heavy rains that in some points exceeded 100 millimeters per square meter.. At about 4 o’clock, the Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya (SMC) has issued a observation warning for “rain accumulation”. in the north of the province, with showers that could exceed 100 millimeters in 24 hours, episode that has provided a degree of danger of 3 over 6, as indicated in ‘X’. In Cadaqués, up to 32 vehicles have been affected by the rains of Friday morning, being washed away by the stream that crosses the municipality. This has been indicated by the mayor of the town, Pia Serinyana, in statements in Catalunya Ràdiowhere he explained that the point of maximum intensity has been between 2 and 3 hours and that at the moment the river continues to fall, although not as it was falling at that time. In the meantime, the death toll as a result of the DANA has risen to 222 after the bodies of a father and his five-year-old son in Chiva and another man in Catarroja were found on Thursday.. For its part, the offices ‘ante mortem’ enabled by the National Police and the Civil Guard have counted until 20.00 hours on Thursday, 78 active cases of missing persons reports in the province of Valencia. They are 15 cases less than those reported on Wednesday.
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