Ávila, Spain — Firefighters rescued more than 40 children from a religious retreat in southern Spain on Friday, officials said.
Also rescued were three monitors after floods from the overflowing Adaja and Chico rivers trapped the students inside a religious retreat center in Ávila.
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The children, aged around 10, had been staying at the Santa Teresa religious house when rising waters flooded the orchard, garden, sewer system, and basement.
Nun Purificación Martín, who remains at the site with around 30 elderly nuns, told EFE they realized the extent of the flooding at 7 am when they found the entire outside area submerged.
This marks the second major flood in the southern part of Ávila in two weeks, though this time the water level is higher, worsening the impact.
The Santa Teresa de Jesús School students from San Juan de Aznalfarache (Seville) were evacuated with assistance from firefighters, local police, and civil protection forces.
Before the floods hit, the retreat had housed 350 students from Seville, Salamanca, Calahorra, Zaragoza, and Toledo, most of whom had left on Thursday.
The 31 nuns residing in the convent have stayed behind, though power and heating have been lost due to the flooded basement, which houses the boilers and cold storage.
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