Madeira: British woman swept to death in floods

By Fiona Govan in Funchal, Madeira, and Lucy Cockcroft Published: 8:00PM GMT twenty-one February 2010

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Pamela Gaines, 50, from Driffield, north Humberside, was travelling in between hotels with her husband, George, 54, and an additional British integrate when their cab was swept afar by a swell of H2O from a distended river.

Mr Gaines and the alternative couple, declared locally as Roger and Gillian Wilson, managed to shun from the car and were treated with colour with colour for injuries at hospital.

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Mrs Gaines, whose 3 sons arrived on the island last night, and the cab motorist were swept away. Their bodies were recovered yesterday after being blank given Saturday morning.

The British couples were holidaying together on the Portuguese island and had motionless to leave their road house in the capital, Funchal, to stay overnight in a 19th-century converted estate house, fifteen mins expostulate away.

Mr Gaines and Mr Wilson were liberated from sanatorium inside of hours, but Mrs Wilson was yesterday still at the Nelio Mendonca Hospital, in Funchal, where she is being treated with colour with colour for chest injuries.

A orator at the sanatorium said: "Her condition is fast and her injuries are not life-threatening nonetheless we design to keep her for a week to ten days."

The genocide fee rose to 42 on Sunday in the misfortune floods on the island for a century.