El Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya (Meteocat) has issued a warning for severe weather in several counties of Catalunya for this Saturday afternoon, according to a message on X.
About twenty ground crews from the Barcelona Fire Department and the Generalitat, as well as aerial resources, are working on a forest fire that broke out early this afternoon on the Sant Pere Màrtir mountain in Collserola. The alert was received at 3:35 p.m. and the fire, which is believed to have started in the Carretera de les Aigües area, is affecting the Sant Pere Màrtir mountain.
The relatives of the former general secretary of UAGA Javier Sánchez and his wife, Esther Latorre, found dead in their home with stab wounds on Saturday in Tauste (Zaragoza), have asked that “in these moments of great pain, their memory and the privacy of the entire family be respected.”
It was not an unexpected situation like those that usually occur daily in Rodalies. The solar eclipse was an event for which the Generalitat had been preparing for months, with an interdepartmental commission in which representatives from the different consellerías involved in the special device to facilitate the enjoyment of the astronomical phenomenon met regularly. And everything worked… except public transportation.
The two detainees for the homicides in Tauste (Zaragoza) of the former secretary of the Union of Farmers and Ranchers of Aragon (UAGA), Javier Sánchez, and his wife, Esther Latorre, one of their daughters and her partner, have been sent to provisional prison after appearing this Thursday before the judicial authority in Ejea de los Caballeros and refusing to testify.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra arrested two men on Wednesday accused of participating, along with two or three others, in the violent assault on a home in the Eixample where they held a young Egyptian content creator, passing through Barcelona. The rest of the gang fled through the inner courtyards, while several neighbors alerted 112 and recorded the scene.
Barcelona is not the ideal setting to watch Wednesday’s eclipse. Despite this, the public does not want to miss this historic event. These paragraphs are a guide on what one can do, and also what one should not do, to enjoy this phenomenon close to home.
The Balearic Health Service has detected a community outbreak of measles in Mallorca that already affects six people and originates from a minor tourist who arrived on the island and was treated on July 19 in the Pediatric Emergency Department of the Son Espases University Hospital. Health authorities are keeping contact tracing open due to the risk of new cases appearing after the movements and encounters that have occurred in recent weeks.
The Rodalies train service has once again suffered a new interruption this Monday after another cable theft, this time at the Bellvitge-Gornal station, in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona). As a result of this incident, Adif has reported through social networks that delays may occur on lines R2, R2 Nord, R2 Sud, and R15 of the Rodalies de Catalunya network.
Behind many of the service interruptions that Rodalies suffers daily are copper thieves who operate throughout the railway network with total impunity. They do so in points of the metropolitan area in broad daylight or in some remote and lonely place at dawn. There is no clear pattern beyond acting quickly, wiping out everything, and leaving as a consequence the corresponding impact on the service users.