Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa expressed his solidarity with the family of the victim who died in Albufeira after an 85-year-old British woman was killed during Storm Claudia on Saturday (November 15).

A tornado struck Albufeira in southern Portugal, emergency services said, which damaged and destroyed caravans at a camping area, where regional civil protection commander Vitor Vaz Pinto said the woman was killed.

Twenty-eight people were injured at a nearby hotel, he said, adding that two of them were in hospital with serious injuries.

Two others had been killed and dozens injured in violent weather brought on by the storm.

Rescue workers found the bodies of an elderly couple inside their flooded home in Fernao Ferro, across the River Tagus from Lisbon, on Thursday (November 13). They had apparently been sleeping and were unable to flee as the water rose during the night.

Portuguese weather service IPMA placed the entire Algarve and districts of Beja and Setubal on amber alert, its second-highest alert level.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

ALBUFEIRA, PORTUGAL (NOVEMBER 15, 2025) (SIC - No use Portugal)

1. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS FROM DESTROYED MOBILE HOUSES AFTER STORM CLAUDIA

2. DEBRIS ON TOP OF TREES

LISBON, PORTUGAL (NOVEMBER 15, 2025) (SIC - No use Portugal)

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) PORTUGAL PRESIDENT, MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSA, SAYING:

"Express to the family and to those who were injured, to the family of the lady who passed away in these tragic circumstances, my solidarity."

ALBUFEIRA, PORTUGAL (NOVEMBER 15, 2025) (SIC - No use Portugal) (MUTE)

4. DEBRIS ON GROUND

5. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS ON ROOF

6. BROKEN CORRUGATED ROOF SHEETS

7. BROKEN ROOF AS SHOT FROM INSIDE

8. BROKEN BRICKS ON GROUND

GOLEGA, PORTUGAL (NOVEMBER 15, 2025) (SIC - No use Portugal)

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) PORTUGAL PRIME MINISTER, LUIS MONTENEGRO, SAYING:

"Very difficult moments in which a person has even died, which I naturally regret, and we have the entire civil protection structure following the situation, and I will now inform myself about the extent of it."

ALBUFEIRA, PORTUGAL (NOVEMBER 15, 2025) (SIC - No use Portugal)

10. BELONGINGS STREWN ON GROUND / DEBRIS FROM DESTROYED MOBILE HOMES

11. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS ON GROUND / RESCUE WORKERS AT SCENE

12. WOODEN DEBRIS ON GROUND

13. CARS AND BUSES

14. VARIOUS OF BROKEN TREE OUTSIDE HOTEL

15. BROKEN TILES ON ROOF

16. NATIONAL REPUBLICAN GUARDS WALKING PAST DAMAGED CARS

17. BROKEN WINDOW OF BUS

18. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) TOURIST BUS DRIVER, NO NAME GIVEN, SAYING:

"I opened the door to go to the customers and I was thrown back inside the bus, and the people who were coming were hit by tiles, by things flying through the air, and there was glass inside the hotel as well."

19. PEOPLE WHEELING SUITCASES

20. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) ALBUFEIRA CITY MAYOR, RUI CRISTINA, SAYING:

"We do not yet know if there are any people displaced from their homes; we will only know that later in the day. But if there are, the council will provide everything that is within our power."

21. BROKEN WINDOW OF CAR

22. BROKEN TREE

23. BROKEN TILES ON GROUND

24. LEAVES AND TWIGS INSIDE HOTEL RESTAURANT

25. TARPAULIN ON GROUND