A British woman has been found dead and a British man is missing after they were apparently swept away in a flash flood while hiking in Majorca.
They were on a trail that leads through a small canyon to the sea when the storm hit the Balearic island on Tuesday, Spain’s Civil Guard said.
The police initially said they had found the body of a man and were searching for the woman, but on Wednesday corrected it to say the body was of a woman.
Emergency services have been searching near a canyon called the Torrent de Pareis in the Tramuntana mountain range.
The Balearic Islands and a large area of Spain’s eastern coast were under alert for strong winds and heavy rains.
The region has been experiencing extremely wet weather in recent weeks.
Firefighters said on X last month they had cordoned off areas in Majorca‘s capital Palma and evacuated 29 people from a train on the line between the city and Manacor due to the flooding.
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More than 50 flights were cancelled across airports in the Balearic Islands during a rainstorm in mid-August, Spanish airport operator Aena said.
More thunderstorms over Barcelona forced the organisers of the America’s Cup sailing event to postpone racing.
That decision came after lightning struck near a yacht on Tuesday, forcing a race to be abandoned.
Sky News has contacted the UK Foreign Office for comment.