This Saturday, an attack destroyed a camping park and damaged a tourist complex in Albufeira, a town in the Portuguese Algarve, causing the death of an 85-year-old British woman and wounding 28 people, including two in serious condition, as confirmed by the regional commander of Civil Protection, Vítor Vaz Pinto. Among the injured are four Spaniards, of whom one remains hospitalized in Faro while the rest have been discharged.
“Where the phenomenon occurred, there was significant destruction, taking into account that the camping park is full of motorhomes, which are fragile structures,” said Vaz Pinto. , which has been affecting the Iberian Peninsula for several days, occurred around ten in the morning this Saturday.
The Algarve, where almost 400 incidents have been recorded due to the storm, has been one of the most affected regions, along with the metropolitan area of Lisbon and the Setúbal peninsula. He classified the episode as a tornado, according to the newspaper Public. Some measuring points recorded wind gusts of up to 112 kilometers per hour.
With this latest death, the number of fatalities caused by the storm as it passed through has risen to three. An 88-year-old couple died on Thursday at their home in the town of Seixal due to a sudden flood in their home, a ground floor located in an undeveloped area. The elderly did not have time to activate the emergency device to alert them of their situation.
Since the arrival of the storm last Wednesday, Portugal has registered nearly 3,400 incidents until this Saturday. Mostly due to flooding and falling trees, according to the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority. A thunderstorm forced a plane to return to Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon shortly after takeoff after being struck by lightning that affected one of the engines.
Four districts of the country (Faro, Setúbal, Beja and Braga) remained under an orange warning this Saturday due to risks associated with persistent rains and storms. “There is a very great degree of unpredictability, we know that we are under this situation of depression, but not if there can be specific phenomena or where they will affect,” said the regional commander of Civil Protection of the Algarve, alluding to the episode of extreme wind that destroyed the Albufeira camping park.
Starting this Sunday, improvement is expected throughout the country, but the trail left by Claudia It will be persistent due to the numerous damages caused by floods of water and mud and the wind.
