At least seven people die and four others are missing as Storm Gloria continues to batter the coast of Spain
Policemen and security members walk on a fallen bridge in Malgrat de Mar, near Girona on January 22, 2020, as storm Gloria batters Spanish eastern coast.
The latest victim was a man who fell into the sea in the northeastern port of Palamos, emergency services said late Wednesday. Four people were still believed to be missing after Storm Gloria crashed into eastern Spain on Sunday with gusts of over 100 kilometres per hour, massive waves, snow and freezing rain.
Meteorologists said the rains would continue throughout Thursday, varying in intensity, in France's southernmost Mediterranean departments of the Pyrenees-Orientales and Aude.While winter storms are not rare on Spain's Mediterranean coast, Spain has suffered several episodes of unusually intense rainfall in recent years.
A 25-year-old British man who visited a beach in the north of the holiday island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean was among those missing.
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