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Malaga floods: Is it safe to travel to Spain and should I cancel my holiday after flooding disaster?

Simon Calder’s Travel

Travel chaos in Malaga appears to be improving Thursday morning after dozens of flights were delayed and 15 cancelled following a powerful storm over the popular tourist destination Costa del Sol in Spain.

Some high-speed train services in Malaga are also reopening on Thursday after trains were halted and stations were evacuated due to flooding, national rail infrastructure operator Adif said.

Thousands of residents have been evacuated along the Guadalhorce River west of Malaga and reportedly along the Vélez River due to a high risk of flooding, while the city’s main hospital is now limiting its services to only emergencies after they were flooded.

The UK’s Foreign Office (FCDO) has updated its travel advice to warn that severe weather and flooding is affecting many areas along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain. They add that many parts of the Valencia region and Castilla La Mancha continue to be severely affected by recent flooding.

Multiple flights at Valencia’s airport appear to be cancelled on Thursday as severe weather warnings have been reinstated in the region.

The travel disruption comes two weeks after the city and other areas of Eastern Spain, namely Valencia were hit with devastating flash flooding due to torrential rainstorms, the worst flooding disaster the area has experienced in decades.

In the aftermath of the floods, cars have been piled on the street surrounded by a sea of debris from damaged buildings and structures.

More than 200 people have lost their lives after the flooding swept through streets, turning walkways into rivers and trapping people in their homes and on the roofs of cars.

It is the worst flood-related catastrophe Spain has witnessed since at least 1996 when 87 people died and 180 were injured in a flash flood near Biescas in the Pyrenees.

Here is the latest on the situation in Spain and what you need to know about travel.

Will my flight to Spain be cancelled after the latest flooding?

A car circulates partially submerged in water near to El Perchel quarter on 13 November in Malaga

A car circulates partially submerged in water near to El Perchel quarter on 13 November in Malaga (Getty Images)

Out of the 296 commercial flights that were scheduled at Malaga-Costa Del Sol airport on Wednesday, 15 had been cancelled as of 8pm local time, and around five had been diverted, Spain’s airport group, Aena, said.

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