At 8 pm, Spain's environment secretary Moran, who was travelling in Colombia, called the regional official in charge of the emergency services Salomé Pradas to say there was a risk a dam would fail.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday announced almost 2.3 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in new aid for the country’s flood stricken region as he defended his government’s handling ...

Over half of the people who died in catastrophic floods in Spain's Valencia region were aged 70 or over, figures from a data centre set up by the police following the disaster have shown.