Spain announced the closure of some schools, including 20 schools in Lleida and Tarragona, due to snow storms Filomena, which affected 12 Catalan provinces. With regard to school transportation, more than a dozen regions have so far been affected, according to the Ministry of Education in Spain.
Continuous snowfall in most parts of Spain, which was covered in white, caused traffic paralysis, with record rain not seen in 50 years, snowfall also killed four people, trapped thousands in cars, and stopped train stations and airports due to snow.
The Spanish newspaper “La Panjordia” said that emergency services spread in the Andalusia region, and the bodies of a man and a woman were recovered after their car washed away an overgrown river near the town of Fuengirola, and the Ministry of the Interior said that a 54-year-old man was found dead in Madrid under a large pile of snow. A homeless man died due to freezing temperatures in the northern city of Zaragoza.
Madrid and more than half of Spain’s provinces remain alert due to bad weather. In the Spanish capital, the authorities activated the red alert for the first time since the system was adopted four decades ago, and called on the army to rescue the passengers of vehicles trapped on small roads or large highways.
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