Protesters flooded Spain's southern city of Seville on Sunday as public outrage grows over failings that led to hundreds of women not receiving the results of breast cancer screenings.

The southern Andalusia region's conservative-run government said the scandal affected at least 2,300 women who had mammograms in public hospitals in recent years.

All of the tests revealed issues or were inconclusive and would have required follow-ups, so the failure to inform patients meant potential cancer cases went undetected.

The regional authorities have so far not offered clear explanations for the failing but said they planned to boost staffing in mammography units -- a move many patients and activists have deemend insufficient.

Protests led by women erupted in several Andalusian cities earlier t

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