The deadliest floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 214 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Nov. 2.
In a televised statement, Sanchez said the government was sending 5,000 more army troops to help with the searches and clean-up, in addition to 2,500 soldiers already deployed.
Officials said the death toll is likely to keep rising. It is already Spain’s worst flood-related disaster in modern history and the deadliest to hit Europe since the 1970s.
Volunteers flocked to Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences center Nov. 2 for the first coordinated clean-up organized by regional authorities. The venue has been turned into the nerve center for the operation.
In Valencia’s Picanya suburb, shop owner Emilia, 74, told Reuters on Nov. 2: “We feel abandoned, there are many people who need help. It is not only my house, it’s all the houses and we are throwing away furniture, we are throwing away everything.
“When is the help going to come to have fridges and washing machines? Because we can’t even wash our clothes and we can’t even have a shower.” (Reuters)
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