Swollen rivers flood streets in Spain leaving at least one person dead

A rescue team help a woman standing on the balcony of her home in Tudela, which has been flooded by the River Ebro (Alvaro Barrientos/AP))

Swollen rivers that have burst their banks in north and north-eastern Spain have been blamed for the death of at least one person.

Emergency services said they retrieved the body of a 61-year-old man from inside the cab of his submerged van in a river in the Navarre region.