31 Oct, 2024 @ 11:52
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Watch: Moment e-scooter rider attempts to travel through deadly floods in Spain

THIS is the moment an e-scooter rider attempted to travel through the deadly floods in Spain this week.

In incredible footage shared online, the woman can be seen travelling on the vehicle down a street in Malaga.

She seems completely unfazed by the fact that the water has already submerged her two-wheeled device and is almost at knee height.

The video was shared on X by a local woman under the username @98_canu.

She can be heard giving an exasperated commentary throughout the clip.

She is heard saying: “Madre mia people are crazy, that woman is going to die.”

The footage was recorded on Tuesday, during the worst of the flooding that was sparked by a DANA weather system.

In Malaga, at least one person, a 71-year-old British expat, has died as a result of the floods.

He was hospitalised after suffering from hypothermia at his home on the outskirts of Alhaurin de la Torre.

He suffered a subsequent stroke but recovered and later died of organ failure.

The total number of deaths across Andalucia, Valencia and Castilla-La Mancha stand at 95 at time of publication.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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