Several cars can be seen piled up at a bridge elsewhere in the Spanish town, which is the latest devastated by flood waters
Footage shows a raging torrent of water carrying away everything in its path including several vehicles as it swept through the centre of the Catalan town of Cadaques this morning.
Today residents woke up to a new scene of destruction, with mayor Pia Serinyana revealing a total of 32 cars had been washed away by the flood water caused by a nearby river overflowing.
Many ended up piled on top of each other by a bridge in front of the town casino, with at least one of the smashed-up vehicles appearing to belong to foreign tourists because of the number plates that were clearly visible.
This comes just over a week after another flooding disaster hit Spain, in particular the Valencia region, with more than 200 people confirmed to have died.
Miraculously there were no reports of any human casualties in the former fishing village of Cadaques on Friday.
Catalan weather agency Meteocat, which published footage of the latest flash flood to hit Spain in the early hours of this morning, said: 'This is how the Cadaques stream goes down after the intense and continuous rain this morning, where there is likely to have been more than 100mm of rainfall.'
One local resident said on X: 'The situation is very serious in Cadaques. Dozens of cars have been swept away by the swollen stream in the town, blocking up the bridge.
'It's been many years since something like this happened in Cadaques.'
The town's mayor Serinyana confirmed early this morning that no-one had been injured or killed and only material damage had occurred.
She said the number of cars swept downstream had reached 32 after the council had warned residents not to park in the area, adding: 'We had an alert from the Operations Coordination Centre of Catalonia, but people parked their cars [anyway] and the water swept them away.'
Serinyana added: 'There has been a lot of water falling on the mountain and, although it has hardly rained in the town, the water has swept away some parked cars.'
The heaviest rainfall occurred between 2am and 3am. While rain warnings for northeastern Catalonia remained in place, the local meteorological service predicted that the rain will ease over the weekend.
One local admitted: 'If this raging torrent of water had come through town during the day I'm sure we would have been looking at mass casualties. The time of night this happened saved us from a certain tragedy.'
Cadaques is just over three hundred miles north of Valencia, where more than 200 people including two Britons lost their lives in flash floods late October.
Meanwhile, Paiporta in Valencia has been labeled by Spanish media as the ground zero of the natural disaster that has also left 78 people still missing, while officials say the real figure could be higher.
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