A week after the terrible floods which affected the Valencia region, in the south-east of Spain, the regional justice system communicated a first official report of the missing: 89 people remain untraceable.
“The joint offices of the scientific police and the security forces have counted 89 cases of missing persons,” indicated the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencia region on the social network X.
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Provisional reports provided by local and national authorities show 219 deaths in the exceptional bad weather last Tuesday. Among them are two Chinese, two Romanians, an Ecuadorian and three British.
According to the executive, electricity was restored on Tuesday to “98% of homes” and “68%” of damaged telephone lines were repaired. In addition, 40 kilometers of roads and 74 kilometers of railways were repaired.
An aid plan of 10.6 billion euros
The Spanish government unveiled on Tuesday an aid plan of 10.6 billion euros for tens of thousands of affected residents and businesses.
The government will activate “direct aid for affected citizens and businesses, as we did during the pandemic, with the least possible paperwork and the greatest speed”, declared Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at the end of the Council of Ministers.
