Pedro Sanchez announced this Saturday, November 2, the sending of 10,000 additional soldiers and police officers to help find the missing.
The dramatic floods that occurred overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in the south-east of Spain caused at least 211 victims, according to a latest report released on Saturday by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
The relief efforts deployed in the disaster areas have at this stage “located and recorded 211 deaths”, declared the head of government during an institutional declaration, specifying that operations were continuing to find the missing people.
10,000 soldiers sent as reinforcements
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the sending of 5,000 soldiers and 5,000 additional police and gendarmes to help the inhabitants of the south-east of the country, ravaged by dramatic floods.
In total, “5,000 additional soldiers” will be deployed “in the coming hours” to help residents of the disaster areas, Pedro Sanchez said in an official statement from the Moncloa Palace, residence of the head of government. To these soldiers will be added “5,000 additional police and civil guards (equivalent to gendarmes in Spain, editor's note)”, he added.
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With AFP
