Severe thunderstorms and torrential rain have once again battered coastal Spain, causing flooding and evacuations just two weeks after the country experienced deadly flooding in Valencia and other nearby communities.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in the Costa del Sol region of southern Spain after a red weather alert was issued for extreme rain and flooding. Spain's Civil Protection Agency sent a mass alert to phones in Málaga province after 22:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on Tuesday evening warning of a "extreme risk of rainfall".

Thousands of people have been evacuated as parts of Spain are lashed with rain, just weeks after flash flooding caused the country’s worst natural disaster in living memory. Red weather alerts were issued on Wednesday evening in Valencia as more torrential rain hit areas already devastated by the previous flooding that left more than 220 people dead,

Spain's traumatised Valencia region woke up unscathed after an overnight rain alert on Thursday, two weeks after the country's deadliest floods in decades killed more than 200 people there.