MADRID - Spain closed schools and evacuated residents as heavy rains lashed the country on Nov 13, two weeks after its worst floods in a generation killed more than 200 people.

Schools in flood-hit towns in eastern Spain are closed as the region braces for more torrential rains, officials said.

Thousands of students in Spain's eastern Valencia region returned to classes on Monday, two weeks after floods killed over 200 people and devastated towns in the area. Controversy over the regional government's handling of the floods still rages,