A 33 -year -old man has died after his car was dragged during the early hours of this Friday by Mulería at the height of Villaricos, a town belonging to Cuevas del Almanzora (Almería, 15,246 inhabitants). The torrential rains that have affected the Almeria Levante caused the flow to grow rapidly and affected the Al-8106 road, whereby the victim was traveling with three relatives, who were unharmed. The yellow alert had activated it to possible rainfall in.
It was a call to the 112 Andalusia emergency service around 5.40 in the morning that warned that there was a vehicle trapped by water near Villaricos, northeast of the city of Almería. To the place patrols from the civil lair of both the positions of Cuevas del Almanzora and the nearby municipalities of Pulpí and Vera moved, in addition to members of the Lince and Citizen Security team with a drone.
The agents found two vehicles that had been dragged by the water. In one of them a couple who was helped. In the other there were three people who were also rescued by the Civil Guard with the support of Local Police and Firefighters. They were well and without wounds, although two of them had to be treated by health services since they were in a state of shock. These people indicated that there was a person traveling with them and remained missing. He was a 33 -year -old man who couldn’t locate. Then the Special Group of Underwater Activities (GEAS) joined the device.
The specialists began to comb the area until, hours later, they located the lifeless body of the missing. It was a few meters from the riverbed, as explained by the Civil Guard in a statement, already near the mouth and in the vicinity of the beach of Quitapellejos. The armed institute “deeply regrets the death and transmits its deepest condolences to family members.”
The State Meteorology Agency had activated the yellow warning due to strong rainfall, with the possibility of storms, from Thursday to 06.00 in the morning on Friday. Especially in the areas of the Almanzora and Vélez Valley. Precipitation has left 42 liters in the Sierra Almagro in the last 24 hours, as well as 37 in the Almanzora Cuevas Reservoir in the same period.
