Train travel on a high-speed rail link between Madrid and Seville in the south was disrupted Tuesday due to heavy rains in central Spain, national railway infrastructure company ADIF said.
The rain swept debris along a two-kilometre-long (1.2-mile-long) stretch of the rail link — which also services tourist centres like Cordoba and Malaga on the coast — forcing its closure on Monday night, it said in a statement.
Rail traffic resumed on only one of the rail link's two tracks on Tuesday afternoon, causing delays to long-distance trains that affected thousands of passengers. Full service is only expected to resume on Wednesday.
Torrential rains accompanied by hail and strong winds swept central Spain, causing flooding in the province of Toledo, south of the capital.
The rain also flooded highways in the region, according to the interior ministry's traffic department DGT.
Spain's national weather office placed 12 provinces in the south of the country on "yellow" alert, the first of its four-scale alert level, because of the risk of heavy rain.
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