Valencia’s justice system said Tuesday evening that it had recorded 89 cases of missing people in this Spanish region hard hit by floods.
“The joint offices of the scientific police and security forces count 89 cases of missing persons”, said the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencia region on X. This is the first time that the authorities have given a figure for missing people.
“We are not doing well”
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.
On the ground, the situation nevertheless remains very complicated, particularly in Paiporta, a town of 25,000 inhabitants in the suburbs of Valencia, considered to be the epicenter of the tragedy, with more than 70 victims. On Tuesday, drinking water returned but the streets were still clogged with vehicles.
“We are getting better, but we are not doing well,” summarized Mayor Maribel Albalat on the public channel TVE. “We need machines, we need professionals who come and clean the streets, empty them,” she pleaded.
According to reports provided by local and national authorities, 219 people died in these bad weather, the vast majority in the Valencia region. Among them are two Chinese, two Romanians, an Ecuadorian and three British.
The courts have already authorized the handing over of “nearly fifty bodies” of the deceased to their families, indicated the Superior Court of Justice of Valencia.
Floods in Spain
