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Flights delayed and thousands evacuated due to extreme rainfall in Malaga

Flights in and out of Malaga airport have been delayed and cancelled and thousands of people have been evacuated due to extreme rainfall and flash floods in the Costa del Sol region.

The weather comes two weeks after floods in the Valencia region killed around 200 people.

The extreme weather phenomenon, known as Dana, is understood to have brought much of the Malaga province to a standstill today (November 13). The Costa del Sol region includes tourist destinations such as Marbella, Estepona, and Vélez.

Malaga airport’s website, Aena, showed scheduled departures out of the airport had been cancelled. No arrivals were listed for the evening, with the last flight shown as landing at 6.22pm local time.

A spokesman for easyJet said there had been no major impact on its flight programme to and from Malaga today with flights operating as planned.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office urged travellers to check the latest weather warnings before travelling.

Thousands of residents have been evacuated and schools shut after a mass alert was sent to people’s phones by Spain’s Civil Protection Agency on Tuesday evening warning of an extreme risk of rainfall. Up to seven inches of rainfall is expected within hours in some areas.

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