Floods are hitting Spain AGAIN as water rushes through Tarragona, hours after the red alert put Valencia into lockdown

FLOODS have hit Spain again as torrents of water rush through the streets of Tarragona.

Images show several centimeters of water flowing through the city streets past cars and flooding parts of the city.

New images show water flowing through the street

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New images show water flowing through the street
The flowing water was several centimeters high in Tarragona

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The flowing water was several centimeters high in Tarragona
The water seemed to be several centimeters high

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The water seemed to be several centimeters high
Tarragona is currently under an orange weather warning

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Tarragona is currently under an orange weather warning

Tarragona is further north than Valencia – where the worst floods of last week in which more than 200 people died.

Orange rain warnings are in force from Castellon to Tarragona, with the Catalan city expecting 40mm of rain.

A red rain warning was in effect for Valencia on Sunday evening, with orange and yellow warnings as far north as Barcelona.

More than 200 people were killed in Tuesday’s floods and thousands have had their houses destroyed by the wall of water and mud.

At least sixty people died in Paiporta, the epicenter of the disaster.

Nearly 2,000 people remain missing as 10,000 troops join the frantic rescue efforts.

King Felipe visited Paiporta today, where angry locals threw mud at him and protested a lack of support.

Spanish mayors described major floods in Valencia earlier last week as trapping people in his city “like rats”.

Ricardo Gabaldn, mayor of Utiel, a town in Valencia, said the flooding was the “worst day of my life”.

In the meantime, images have emerged of one teacher smashes a glass door only to open it and escape with the children he cared for.

Daniel Burguet, headmaster of an English school outside Valencia, saved a group of children when rising waters threatened to drown them.

Moment flood survivors in Spain throw mud and stones at King Felipe as anger grows over disaster response

In the meantime, one woman has been found alive trapped in a car with her dead sister-in-law for three days.

The unnamed woman was said to have been rescued from a flooded tunnel in the stricken town of Benetusser, on the outskirts of Valencia.

Rescuers are said to have discovered the woman after hearing her desperate cries for help among the pile of abandoned vehicles.

Search and rescue workers drove from car to car as many people were driving home when the flooding hit.

There are also fears that an underground car park in Valencia that has yet to be searched could now be a “mass grave”.

A devastated mother has made a tearful plea to help find her missing daughter.

She said: “I’m asking for help finding Janine. We are looking for her and if she is there and suddenly no longer remembers us, please contact us, Janine.

Sobbing, the heartbroken mother added: “Your family is looking for you. We haven’t stopped looking for you. We love you very much.”

Rescue teams continue to search for victims trapped in flooded garages and cars in Valencia, sparking fears of a ‘mass grave’.

Heartbreaking images from the Bonaire Shopping Center near Valencia show escalators leading to the underwater underground parking garage.

A telephone number has been set up for locals to call and register missing relatives, with 1,900 already registered. el Diario reports.

On Thursday, 600 people registered as missing were found.

Why was Spain hit by floods?

Spain was hit by flash floods after the east of the country was hit by a meteorological phenomenon known as ‘DANA’.

A DANA, or a ‘cold drop’, is technically a system where there is an isolated depression in the atmosphere at a high level.

In layman’s terms, more warm and moist Mediterranean air than normal was sucked high into the atmosphere after a cold system hit the country from the south.

The east wind then pushed all those clouds and rain to the east of Spain.

In some places, three to four months of rain fell in the space of 24 hours.

The DANA system hit southern Spain when it arrived from Morocco yesterday and is now expected to move westwards over southern Portugal.

Images show how a van drove by to collect water

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Images show how a van drove by to collect water
Many cars were damaged by the floods

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Many cars were damaged by the floodsCredit: Reuters