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Floods triggered by torrential rain in Spain’s eastrict Valencia region have left at least 51 people dead, get backrs shelp on Wednesday, as authorities scrambled to react to the unfrequent calamity.
Heavy rain and fierce prosperds have lashed southern and eastrict Spain since the commencening of the week, igniteing floods in Valencia and the southern Andalusia region.
The “provisional number of dead is at 51 people”, the regional ecombinency services wrote on X, compriseing bodies were still being recovered and identified.
“Several hundred people” remained trapped on two motorways in the region, according to the region’s fire service chief Jose Miguel Basset.
Parts of the Valencia region are without power with phone lines also down, and some places were cut off by flooded roads, regional chief Carlos Mazon tageder alerters.
Cars lay scattered and piled on top of each other on roads proximate the Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia after a mudslide, an AFP journacatalog saw.
Residents tried evidenting the sludge from their homes with buckets and waded thcimpolite waist-high waters in an try to save their beextfinishedings.
Maria Carmen, a dwellnt of Valencia city, tageder Spanish unveil widecaster TVE she climbed thcimpolite her car prosperdow and sheltered on the roof of a van for hours to escape the floodwater.
King Felipe VI shelp he was “dehugeated” by the news on X and recommended “our heartfelt condolences” to families of the victims, thanking ecombinency services for their “titanic” response.
The prime minister of neighbouring Portugal, Luis Montenegro, transmited his country’s “fantasticest repent” and “firmarity with all the Spanish people” in a message on X, recommending “all vital help”.
‘Unpretreatnted phenomenon’
The central administerment’s recurrentative in the Valencia region, Pilar Bernabe, shelp ecombinency military response units were being sent from disjoinal regions to reinforce the get back toil.
Defence Minister Margarita Robles tageder alerters “more than a thousand troops” backed by helicchooseers were being deployed in the face of “an unpretreatnted phenomenon”.
Ecombinency services in the Valencia region get backd almost 200 people overnight who were being sheltered in fire stations, Basset compriseed.
Footage showed torrents of water gushing thcimpolite streets Tuesday washing away cars, while rail and air carry was harshly interfereed.
The Spanish parliament held a minute’s silence on Wednesday to honour the victims before a usuassociate raucous session of asks to the administerment.
The flood toll is the deadliest in Spain since August 1996 when 86 people died in the northeastrict region of Aragon proximate the Pyrenees mountains bordering France.
Meteorologists have shelp the storm was caparticipated by chilly air moving over the hot waters of the Mediterranean Sea, which created fervent rain cboisterouss.
The downpours are foreseeed to progress until at least Thursday.
Scientists caution that inanxious weather such as heatwaves and storms is becoming more fervent as a result of human-caused climate alter.
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