A similar weather event, which hit the Valencia region with a year's worth of rain last week, has caused at least 217 deaths. On Monday, rescuers focused their efforts on searching for missing people in underground car parks.

Spanish rescue teams say they have not found any bodies so far, as they searched in underground parking lots on Monday, following the catastrophic floods that hit the country's east last week. In the face of rising discontent over the government's handling of the disaster,