MADRID: People walk along a street strewn with snow and fallen tree branches after heavy snowfall on Sunday. A large part of central Spain, including the capital Madrid, are slowly clearing snow after the country’s worst snowstorm in recent memory. AP
MADRID: Emergency crews in central Spain cleared 500 roads and rescued over 1,500 people stranded in their vehicles, allowing Madrid and other areas on Sunday to slowly shovel out of the country’s worst snowstorm in recent memory.
After recording 50 centimetres (20 inches) of snow in the Spanish capital between Friday night and Saturday, Madrid and a large swathe of the country remained impassable on Sunday, with roads, rail lines and air travel disrupted by Storm Filomena. The blizzard has been blamed for four deaths.