A group of commuters aboard a rail line in Madrid saw their train car suddenly flood with water as a record torrential rain swept across Spain from Sunday to Monday.
Shocking footage from inside a metro line shows riders backing away from the door connecting the train cars as floodwaters seeped through the cracks.
The worried passengers could be seen filming the flood, with the downpour visible through the train windows, making it seem like the train was stuck in a waterfall.
City officials said the flash flooding began on Sunday, with Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida warning residents to bunker down as 120 liters per square meter of rain was expected to fall in the span of just 12 hours.
“Due to the exceptional and abnormal situation, in which rainfall records will be broken, I ask the people of Madrid to stay at home today,” Martinez-Almeida wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
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