More than 1,000 people were expelled of their houses for him Vélez-Málaga Town Hall behind him overflow river Velez through his mouth. In total, some 900 agricultural workers And more than a hundred inhabitants of a slum They stay at the sports center of the municipality of Malaga and in two hostels authorized by the municipality.
He Vélez River has been overwhelmed at its mouth in the population center of Sea tour in the city of Vélez-Málaga, causing the preventive expulsion of around a thousand people. Vélez-Málaga is the most important city in Axarquiaone of the regions of Malaga which is under red alert this Wednesday due to heavy rain.
This was confirmed by municipal sources who specify that during the morning there were no notable incidents beyond the falling trees and streetlightsalthough around 5:15 p.m. The Vélez river overflowed.
The preventive expulsion was carried out in two campsiteson both banks of the Vélez river, where there were 600 and 300 people respectively. In addition, around a hundred people were evacuated from the Las Casillas slum.
He Vélez-Málaga Town Hall has created two shelters to accommodate these evicted people: one of them is located at the Salvador Sánchez sports center in Torre del Mar and the other at the Paniagua school, in downtown Almayate.
Classes suspended
He rector of the University of Malaga (UMA), Teodomiro López, reported that the academic institution suspended classes and in-person activities with students this Thursday “for reasons of security» before the storm that hits the Province of Malaga.
By a declaration sent to all university communitythe rector assured that since early in the morning they had been carrying out “continuous monitoring of the evolution of the storm and monitoring of its impact on all of our buildings and facilities”.
In this context, he indicated that “for security reasons, to avoid travel and due to the damage suffered in some of our centers, the University of Malaga “has made the decision to suspend classes and all face-to-face activities with students for the entire day of Thursday.”
On the other hand, he specified that university centers will remain open at usual times to allow teachers, researchers and staff to access their jobs. PTGAS. Beforehand, the evaluation of the installations and the cleaning of the buildings will have been carried out.
