A storm unleashing up to 35 centimetres (14 inches) of rain in 24 hours battered the Iberian Peninsula on Wednesday, forcing thousands of people in southern Spain from their homes, shutting schools and cancelling trains. Andalusia's top emergency official, Antonio Sanz, told a press conference that the situation was "very worrying" in the nearby mountainous municipality of Grazalema, where AEMET predicted up to 35 centimetres of rain in 24 hours.

A storm unleashing up to 35 centimetres (14 inches) of rain in 24 hours battered the Iberian Peninsula on Wednesday, forcing thousands of people in southern Spain from their homes, shutting schools and cancelling trains. Andalusia's top emergency official, Antonio Sanz, told a press conference that the situation was "very worrying" in the nearby mountainous municipality of Grazalema, where AEMET predicted up to 35 centimetres of rain in 24 hours.

A storm unleashing more than 40 centimetres of rain in 24 hours battered the Iberian Peninsula today, killing one, forcing thousands more from their homes, shutting schools and cancelling trains.

A storm unleashing up to 35 centimetres of rain in 24 hours has battered the Iberian Peninsula, forcing thousands of people in southern Spain from their homes, shutting schools and cancelling trains.

Spanish weather agency AEMET placed parts of the southern region of Andalusia under the highest red alert for torrential rain.