Thousands of rescuers pumped water from submerged buildings, churned through muddy streets and cleared debris on Monday as Spain braced for more deaths from its worst floods in decades.The toll stands at 217 dead and could spike in the coming days as an unknown number of people remain missing. Around 17,000 soldiers, police officers, civil guards and firefighters spent a sixth day distributing aid, repairing infrastructure and searching for bodies using heavy machinery, drones and sniffer dogs.

Firemen rescue two men stranded in flash flood in Sasthakoilyaru near Devadanam, Virudhunagar district.

Video. Emergency services are intensifying their efforts to locate victims in a flooded underground car park in Aldaia.

At least 36 people have died and several others have been injured after a bus fell into a 50-meter-deep gorge in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand.

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DEHRADUN, Uttarakhand: A bus in India plunged into a deep Himalayan ravine on Monday (Nov 4), killing at least 36 passengers and injuring several others, a government official said. Photographs released by government rescue teams showed the crumpled wreckage of the bus in thick undergrowth, with the twiste

Volunteers line steep slopes, and across a rushing river, to help pull out wounded

The death toll from the flooding in the Valencia region of the east of Spain stands at 213, but the number is feared to jump "by the hundreds" once work to remove water from the underground car parks is complete

Scuba teams of rescuers have searched underground car parks at Spanish shopping centres which are filled with hundreds of cars, potentially making the sites mass graves