It's a miracle: a missing woman was found safe and sound this Friday, three days after the start of the deadly bad weather which hit Spain and which left at least 211 dead according to the latest report.
Trapped in her car, she found herself under a pile of several other vehicles when the water began to rise overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in Benetússer, a suburb of Valencia, the newspaper reports. The Meridian. The emergency services managed to hear her cries for help while evacuating the numerous carcasses that were blocking her. She was transferred to the hospital.
According to a civil protection official cited by AFP, she was in an underground passage and, according to several Spanish media including The Countryshe would have spent three days inside the vehicle with, at her side, the body of her sister-in-law, found deceased.
2000 cars removed
If the chances of finding survivors are now running out, the priority of soldiers and police remains, according to the executive, the search for the missing, with the restoration of roads and infrastructure to allow “transportation” aid and recovery of “essential services”. According to the authorities, more than 2,000 damaged cars and trucks have already been removed. Electricity has also been restored to 94% of residents who had been deprived of it, and telecommunications are gradually being restored.
In the affected municipalities, the outpouring of solidarity continued on Saturday, particularly in the southern suburbs of Valence, where thousands of people flocked on foot Saturday morning with shovels and brooms to support the population. On Friday, the number of volunteers was such that the authorities called on residents to stay at home and banned traffic on certain roads to prevent the roads used by emergency services from being congested.
