Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 1:36 p.m.
Madrid – The head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, announced on Saturday that the executive will declare “severely affected” areas the regions heavily affected by the devastating floods which hit the southeast of the country this week.
During the Council of Ministers scheduled for next Tuesday, the government will approve, under a civil protection emergency, the declaration of “severely affected areas” the regions most affected by the Dana, declared Mr. Sanchez in a statement institutional after a meeting of the crisis committee on flooding.
These are the regions of Valencia, Castile-La Mancha, Andalusia, Catalonia and Aragon, he said.
The head of the executive also announced the sending of 5,000 additional soldiers “in the coming hours” to help residents of the disaster areas. To these soldiers will be added “5,000 additional police and civil guards,” he added.
The bad weather that occurred during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday “caused the greatest natural disaster in the recent history of our country”, underlined the head of government
Mr. Sánchez also confirmed that rescue teams deployed in the affected areas have recorded 211 deaths so far, and that searches continue to locate those still missing.
The latest report given Friday evening by the authorities shows at least 207 victims, including 204 in the Valencia region, the most affected by these spectacular bad weather. Two other people died in Castile-la-Mancha and a third in Andalusia.
The president of the Valencia region, Carlos Mazón, assured Friday evening that there was still no official figure concerning those missing, while residents without news of their loved ones increased their calls for help. help on social networks.
