Overview
- Guardia Civil is leading a multi-agency operation with local police, Protección Civil volunteers and firefighters to locate two men in their fifties reported missing in Alhaurín el Grande.
- Firefighters recovered the men’s van overturned about 1.6 kilometers from the presumed crossing point near the río Fahala bridge and confirmed the vehicle was empty.
- Teams are combing the river’s course and its mouth on the possibility the current carried the men several kilometers.
- Heavy rain sharply increased the river’s flow, with the Fahala gauge logging 134.7 liters per square meter during the storm, according to official network data cited in local reports.
- The town council says the search will remain active as needed and urges residents to avoid flooded waterways; the men were last seen wearing olive-green jackets.