A large device searches for a motorcyclist dragged by water in a stream in Íllora (Granada)

A large device made up of the Civil Guard, Firefighters and Civil Protection has been searching since this morning for a motorcyclist who disappeared after being swept away by the current of water when He was trying to cross a stream in the municipality of Íllora (Granada).

According to sources from the Civil Guard and the city mayor, Antonio Salazar, the event It occurred between 10:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, the time the alarm went off.

The man was trying to cross Cañada Creek with his motorcycle, an area known as the Sierra de Parapanda, when the force of the water carried it downstream.

According to initial information, the missing person was traveling alongside two other motorcyclists at the time of the incident.

The Civil Guard has deployed a vast search operation which includes Citizen Security patrols and specialists from the The Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group (GREIM), already on site, is searching the area.

To strengthen tracing, the armed institute mobilized the Pegaso team, specializes in the use of drones for aerial search, and activated an air unit helicopter heading to the scene to support efforts to locate this person from the air.

Members of the Provincial Consortium and Civil Protection firefighters also participate in the system, working in complicated terrain because, as the Íllora councilor confirmed, The canal “still contains a lot of water,” making access and monitoring difficult.

According to the newspaper ‘Ideal’, the missing person is a young resident of the town of Zujaira, belonging to the municipality of Pinos Puente.

Two more missing in Alhaurín el Grande

Two men also disappeared Alhaurin el Grande in recent hours, in the middle of the storm that hit the province of Malaga and which led Aemet to activate the red warning due to the forecast of exceeding 120 liters per square meter in 12 hours in certain points.

The mayor of the municipality, Anthony Bermúdez, confirmed to EL ESPAÑOL de Málaga that the Civil Guard maintains a search device for locating two neighbors who, according to initial information, could have been swept away by the current while traveling in a van.

It is about two men in their fifties adults and residents of the city, who are said to have disappeared in the area around the Fahala River, where the vehicle in which they were found was located. The two men They were wearing olive green jackets at the time of their disappearance.

This enclave was one of the points hardest hit by the rains during the episode of instability. According to the Hidrosur network, at the station located in Fahala, 134.7 liters per square meter were recorded.