• Temporary: one dead, five missing and three hospitalized in Catalonia

Salvamento Marítimo has located the body of an elderly man at the mouth of the Francolí River , in the Port of Tarragona, and is now investigating whether it is one of the five disappeared due to the rainy season in Catalonia.

The body, which has appeared south of the Castilla dock , has been recovered at 6:45 p.m. by a Marine Rescue vessel that had mobilized to recover a buoy in the area, sources from this entity have informed Efe. The Civil Guard has taken over the investigation.

Sources of the armed institute have indicated to Efe that it is being investigated now if it is one of the missing persons this Wednesday in the area of ​​the Francolí river due to the storm of fallen rains on Tuesday night, which caused the death of a person in Arenys de Munt (Barcelona) .

In this sense, sources from the Port Authority of Tarragona have indicated that they are now waiting for the judicial delegation, and that the autopsy will confirm whether it is one of the disappeared.

The search for the disappeared has focused on Thursday in the ravine of Sant Joan , where it is about locating two people 72 and 73 years old - a neighbor of Prades (Tarragona) and another of L'Espluga de Francolí (Tarragona ) - circulating in a tourism that was found yesterday morning dumped in the river, with no one inside, and a Belgian truck driver, whose vehicle was also located in this area.

Rescuers have also combed the area of Vilaverd (Tarragona), where they are looking for a 69-year-old woman and her son, 42, whose mobile home was razed by the storm.

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