At least 22 dead in Spanish flood

BIESCAS - At least 22 people including a Briton died and 80 were injured late last night when flash floods devastated a campsite…

BIESCAS - At least 22 people including a Briton died and 80 were injured late last night when flash floods devastated a campsite in the Spanish Pyrenees, authorities in Huesca province said.

A fire brigade spokesman said landslips and mudslides swept through the Las Nieves campsite at the foot of a mountain in the northern Aragon region. Most of the dead were Spanish. But one British national and a Frenchman also died, a Huesca provincial official daid.

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