Storm brings heaviest rainfall on record to parts of eastern Spain
by Associated Press in Madrid from on (#4Q7BD)
Weather system expected to hit Mediterranean regions of Valencia, Alicante and Murcia
Parts of eastern Spain received what in some places was the heaviest rainfall on record on Thursday, as storms wreaked widespread destruction and killed at least two people.
The regional emergency service said a 51-year-old woman and her 61-year-old brother had been found dead in an overturned car that floodwaters had washed away in Caudete, about 60 miles (100km) south of Valencia, the private Spanish news agency Europa Press reported.
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