Eyewitness footage captured cars stranded on flooded streets and a vehicle being swept into the sea by rising floodwaters in Spain’s Gran Canaria on Monday (March 3). Residents in the Telde region later joined forces with emergency services to clean streets blanketed in mud. This video contains language some people may consider offensive.

Heavy rain and flooding have hit the third-largest island in the Canaries, Gran Canaria, covering streets with mud, sweeping away cars and closing beaches.Eastern, southern and western Gran Canaria has been put under a “significant risk” orange weather warning Tuesday afternoon,

Published images show cars washed away by the floods in Gran Canaria, with its streets become raging rivers as water levels rise. Piles of mud and dirt have covered the streets as torrential rain battered the popular holiday island. The entire island of Lanzarote - the easternmost island of the archipelago - is also under a weather warning.

The Spanish islands have been hit with a spell of flash flooding as Spanish authorities issue a red alert in Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria has been hit by massive flooding with cars being swept into the sea as a state of 'pre-alert' was declared

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