Floods in Spain: the parking lot of the Bonaire shopping center, described as a “cemetery”, is said to be “practically empty”, uncertainty remains

The situation remains chaotic in the Valencia region (Spain) where torrential rains caused monster and deadly floods last week. More than 200 dead bodies have already been found, while the number of missing rises to several hundred, although it remains precisely undetermined.

It is time for clean-up, although further rain fell on the evening of Sunday November 3 and the following night, and many areas remain inaccessible. But there is great concern about what was once described as a “cemetery”.

This is the Bonaire shopping center car park in Aldaia, near Valencia, which covers more than 60,000 m² and has some 5,700 spaces. It was impossible for emergency services to access it in the days following the floods, since it was filled to the brim with water and mud. Victims could be there, which worried the authorities.

Around 2,000 employees would have been sheltered. Staff at the Primark store in the shopping center told El Diario that a security guard asked customers not to go down to the basement to get their cars, as the water was already rising. “But many of them didn’t pay attention to him. We don’t know how many people there could be,” he said.

“It’s an uncertainty, we could have very bad news,” Guillermo Luján, the mayor of Aldaia, told the EFE news agency, quoted by the newspaper El Faro de Ceuta on November 3.

This Monday, November 4 morning, the councilor confirmed in the show The Time of 1reported by 20 Minutos, that after initial inspections, the parking lot at the city’s Bonaire mall “was practically empty.” There would be less than a hundred vehicles inside.

Uncertainty remains, explorations are underway.