The death toll from this week's dramatic floods in southeastern Spain is expected to rise due to the number of missing people.
Published on 01/11/2024 23:01
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A toll that grows heavier day by day. The dramatic floods in the south-east of Spain have already claimed the lives of more than 200 people. According to the latest report published by the emergency services of the Valencia region, 202 people died in this community alone. To this number are added three other deaths occurring in two neighboring regions, bringing the total number of deaths to 205, Friday November 1.
In Paiporta, a martyr town of 25,000 inhabitants which has already recorded 62 deaths, a crowd of people, deprived of water and electricity and without access to a business for three days, formed a queue on Friday in front of a point improvised distribution.
The death toll is expected to rise further. Because tthree days after the disaster, the Spanish authorities are still not “not able” to give an accurate estimate of the number of people missing as some 1,700 army troops are deployed to the flood sites to deal with the chaos. Any numbers would be “misleading”, assured the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazon, on Antena 3. Carlos Mazon is only able to confirm that the hotline for relatives of the missing has received “thousands of calls”.
