Madeira floods: 70 feared dead

By Fiona Govan in Madeira Published: 8:02PM GMT twenty-two February 2010

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Recovery teams acid a flooded subterraneous car play ground at a selling centre in the collateral were pronounced to have found multiform bodies.

Local reports pronounced up nineteen people were trapped in their cars when the area flooded as rivers detonate their banks on Saturday morning.

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The grave find took the series of unconfirmed passed to 74.

Authorities have already reliable the loss of 42 lives, of that usually thirteen bodies are nonetheless to be identified. Thirty-two people sojourn missing.

A British lady was in between dozens of people swept to their deaths.

Pamela Gaines, 50, from Driffield, north Humberside, was travelling in between hotels with her husband, George, 54, and an additional British integrate when their cab was swept afar by a swell of H2O from a distended river.

Mr Gaines and the alternative couple, declared locally as Roger and Gillian Wilson, managed to shun from the car and were treated with colour for injuries at hospital.

Diving teams were sent in to poke the dual level subterraneous carpark of the Anadia selling centre on Monday whilst authorities attempted to siphon H2O from the site so they could reach the trapped vehicles.

Further casualties were feared after some-more torrential rainfall on Monday broken buildings in the mountainous country on top of the capital.