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The strong winds and the rains caused by the Elsa storm hit the Iberian Peninsula on Thursday night through Friday, leaving at least five dead in Spain and Portugal.

On Friday morning, maritime connections between Morocco and Spain in the Strait of Gibraltar had to be interrupted by bad weather.

Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic coast of France were preparing to return to receive storms with the arrival on Saturday of a new storm, baptized Fabien.

In Portugal, a man died in an accident caused by the fall of a tree on a road in the region of Setúbal, 50 km south of Lisbon, while a second died when a house collapsed in the district of Viseu, 300 km at North of the capital.

In the same region, a third man was found missing and the emergency services feared that he would have been dragged by the current of a river while driving on his tractor.

In Spain, a man died in the same conditions in the province of León (north), falling into the water while driving a tractor, regional authorities said.

In the mountains of Asturias, in the north of the country, where gusts of wind of up to 160 km / h were recorded, a man was buried by a landslide.

Another man died when a wall collapsed in a park in Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia (northwest).

The relative calm of this Friday will be of short duration. Fabien is expected on Saturday in Portugal, with forecasts of abundant rains and winds that could reach 120 km / h in mountainous regions.

However, the impact of this second storm should be less intense, the Portuguese meteorological institute said.

Source: InfoBae