A British woman has been found dead and a British man is missing after they were apparently swept away in a flash flood while hiking in Majorca.

They were on a trail that leads through a small canyon to the sea when the storm hit the Balearic island on Tuesday, Spain’s Civil Guard said.

The police initially said they had found the body of a man and were searching for the woman, but on Wednesday corrected it to say the body was of a woman.

Emergency services have been searching near a canyon called the Torrent de Pareis in the Tramuntana mountain range.

The Balearic Islands and a large area of Spain’s eastern coast were under alert for strong winds and heavy rains.

The region has been experiencing extremely wet weather in recent weeks.

Firefighters said on X in mid-August they had cordoned off areas in Majorca‘s capital Palma and evacuated 29 people from a train on the line between the city and Manacor due to the flooding.

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More than 50 flights were cancelled across airports in the Balearic Islands during a rainstorm, Spanish airport operator Aena said on 15 August.

More thunderstorms over Barcelona forced the organisers of the America’s Cup sailing event to postpone racing.

That decision came after lightning struck near a yacht on Tuesday, forcing a race to be abandoned.

Sky News has contacted the UK Foreign Office for comment.

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