Heavy rains cause floods in Spain's Malaga

Heavy rains have caused floods in the Spanish city of Malaga, which has been placed on a red alert according to the National weather office AEMET on Thursday. According to emergency services in the southern Andalusia region, more than 1,000 homes and almost 3,000 residents have been evacuated in and around the city of Malaga.

Spain's eastern Valencia region braced for more torrential rain on Wednesday, two weeks after the country's worst floods in generations killed more than 200 people there. Other parts of Spain also on high alert evacuated thousands of residents and closed schools as another storm lashed the European nation.