The floods which devastated the south-east of Spain on October 29 led to the death of at least 26 people of foreign nationality, according to an official report published Thursday which also specifies that almost half of these victims were 70 years old. or more.
According to this report covering exclusively the administrative region of Valencia, i.e. 216 deaths out of the 224 recorded for the moment, 104 of the victims of the tragedy were 70 years old or over, 67 of them even 80 years old or over. Eleven children, including seven under the age of one, also died in this disaster.
Among these 216 victims, 190 were of Spanish nationality and 26 were foreigners of 11 different nationalities, according to figures from the Data Integration Center (CID), an organization set up after the floods of October 29 which makes it possible to collect information on victims in the Valencia region.
Among the 26 foreigners who lost their lives, 9 Romanians, 4 Moroccans, 4 Chinese, 2 British, a Ukrainian, a Dutch, a Tunisian, an Ecuadorian, a Venezuelan, a Colombian and a Paraguayan.
In addition to the 216 deaths recorded in the Valencia region, the floods of October 29 also caused seven victims in Castile-La Mancha and one in Andalusia. Sixteen missing people are still being sought.
