26 people of foreign nationality are among the victims

The Data Integration Center specifies that almost half of these victims were 70 years old or older.

Published on 14/11/2024 17:07

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French firefighters work in the rubble of the floods, in Catarroja, south of Valencia (Spain), November 14, 2024. (JOSE JORDAN / AFP)
French firefighters work in the rubble of the floods, in Catarroja, south of Valencia (Spain), November 14, 2024. (JOSE JORDAN / AFP)

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 from the Data Integration Center (CID) published Thursday November 14. They are nine Romanians, four Moroccans, four Chinese, two British, one Ukrainian, one Dutch, one Tunisian, one Ecuadorian, one Venezuelan, one Colombian and one Paraguayan.

The CID specifies that almost half of these victims were 70 years old or older. 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.

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. Emergency services are still looking for 16 missing people.

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