Storm Adam death toll rises to five as Spain's torrential floods pile cars on top of one another

Pego in Alicante province was drenched by 632mm of rain in 36 hours, and several towns along the Mediterranean coast were cut off. Two bodies were found in Oliva: a 79-year-old woman in her home and a man who suffered a heart attack at a campsite. Another body washed up on a beach in Sagunto. In Cabrera de Mar, near Barcelona, a woman died after falling into a rain-swollen stream.

Security forces carried out more than 400 rescues across the Valencia region by air and land.

At one point on Monday, 800,000 residents were under orders to shelter where they were.

Els Poblets chef Javier Fornez, 49: 'Some people have lost everything all over again.'