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FLOODING has hit Spain again with rivers of water gushing down the streets of Tarragona.
Footage shows several inches of water rushing down city streets past cars and flooding parts of the city.
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Tarragona is further north than Valencia - where the worst flooding hit last week which has killed more than 200 people.
Orange rain warnings are in place from Castellon up to Tarragona with the Catalan city forecast for 40mm of rain.
A red rain warning was in place for Valencia on Sunday night, with orange and yellow warnings as far north as Barcelona.
Over 200 people have died from Tuesday's floods and thousands have had their homes destroyed by the wall of water and mud.
At least 60 of the dead were in Paiporta, the epicentre of the disaster.
Nearly 2,000 people are still missing as 10,000 troops join the frantic rescue efforts.
King Felipe yesterday visited Paiporta with angry locals throwing mud at him and protesting at a lack of support.
Spanish mayors described the major flooding in Valencia earlier last week as trapping people in his town "like rats".
Ricardo Gabaldn - mayor of Utiel, a town in Valencia said the flooding was the "worst day of my life".
Meanwhile, footage has emerged of a teacher smashing a glass door to then open it and escape with children he was looking after.
Moment Spain flood survivors hurl MUD & stones at King Felipe as fury grows over response to disaster
Daniel Burguet, a director of an English school outside Valencia, saved a group of children when rising water threatened to drown them.
Meanwhile, one woman has been found alive after being trapped in a car with her dead sister-in-law for three days.
The unnamed woman is understood to have been rescued from a flooded tunnel in the stricken town of Benetusser - on the outskirts of Valencia.
Rescuers are said to have discovered the woman after hearing her desperate cries for help among the heap of abandoned vehicles.
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Search and rescue workers have been going car-to-car as many people were driving home when the flooding hit.
There are also fears that an underground car park in Valencia yet to be searched could now be a "mass grave".
A devastated mum has made a tearful plea to help find her missing daughter.
She said: "I ask for help in finding Janine. We’re looking for her and if she is out there and suddenly doesn’t remember us, Janine please contact us.
Sobbing, the heartbroken mum added: "Your family is looking for you. We haven’t stopped searching for you. We love you very much."
Rescue teams continue to hunt for victims trapped in flooded garages and cars in Valencia, sparking fears of a "mass grave."
Gut-wrenching images of Bonaire Shopping Centre near Valencia show escalators leading down to the basement car park underwater.
A telephone number has been set up for locals to call in and register missing relatives with 1,900 already registered, el Diario reports.
On Thursday, 600 people who were registered as missing were found.
Why was Spain hit by flooding?
Spain was hit by flash floods after the east of the country was hit by a meteorological phenomena known as a 'DANA'.
A DANA, or a 'cold drop' is technically a system where there is an isolated depression in the atmosphere is at high levels.
In layman's terms, more warm and moist Mediterranean air than usual was sucked high into the atmosphere after a cold system hit the country from the south.
The easterly wind then pushed all those clouds and rain into eastern Spain.
Three to four months of rain fell in some places over the space of 24 hours.
The DANA system hit southern Spain as it arrived from Morocco yesterday and is now expected to head west over southern Portugal.
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