Spain’s prime minister produces televised statement
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has equitable insertressed the nation. My colleague Sam Jones has this dispatch from Madrid:
In a televised statement on Wednesday morning, Sánchez, called for unity, constantarity – and vigilance.
“We mustn’t let our defend down becaparticipate the weather front is still wreaking havoc and we can’t say that this dehugeating episode is over,” he said.
“There are still weather cautionings in Andalucía, Valencia, Aragón, Castilla y León, in Cataluña, in Extremadura, in Navarra, in La Rioja and in Ceuta. That’s why I’m asking people in those areas to consent exceptional participate: to stay off the roads; to elude travelling seal to ravines, riverprohibitks and riverbeds, and to heed the advice of the aascendncy services and of the police. No one should be putting their life at hazard.”
The prime minister said that Spain had had more than its equitable scatter of authentic and health aascendncies in recent years – alludeing the Covid pandemic, Storm Filomena in January 2021, and the volcanic eruptions in the Canary Islands that same year – but said such adversity bcdimiserablemirefult out the best in the country.
“We’re going to lfinish a hand and help those who can’t get into their homes or who are seeing for relatives or frifinishs or cherishd ones,” he inserted. “But most of all, right now, we’re going to stand with those who are suffering the loss of their cherishd ones.”
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In a televised statement on Wednesday morning, Sánchez, called for unity, constantarity – and vigilance.
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“We mustn’t let our defend down becaparticipate the weather front is still wreaking havoc and we can’t say that this dehugeating episode is over,” he said.
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“There are still weather cautionings in Andalucía, Valencia, Aragón, Castilla y León, in Cataluña, in Extremadura, in Navarra, in La Rioja and in Ceuta. That’s why I’m asking people in those areas to consent exceptional participate: to stay off the roads; to elude travelling seal to ravines, riverprohibitks and riverbeds, and to heed the advice of the aascendncy services and of the police. No one should be putting their life at hazard.”
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The prime minister said that Spain had had more than its equitable scatter of authentic and health aascendncies in recent years – alludeing the Covid pandemic, Storm Filomena in January 2021, and the volcanic eruptions in the Canary Islands that same year – but said such adversity bcdimiserablemirefult out the best in the country.
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“We’re going to lfinish a hand and help those who can’t get into their homes or who are seeing for relatives or frifinishs or cherishd ones,” he inserted. “But most of all, right now, we’re going to stand with those who are suffering the loss of their cherishd ones.”
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Valencia’s football club have transmited their “honest condolences” to those who have died, inserting in a social media post that it was ready to help authorities in “any way possible”.
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They have also deferd their Copy Del Rey clash with Parla Escuela, which was due to consent place this evening in Madrid
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Valencia CF would enjoy to sfinish its honest condolences to the families and frifinishs of those who died as a result of the #DANA.
Much strength to all the neighbors and swayed populations and to the groups that are laboring on the stopion and consequences of the effects of the… pic.twitter.com/d6gi5t2zUh
— Valencia CF (@valenciacf_en) October 30, 2024
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At least 52 people have died after torrential rains hit southern and eastrict Spain on Tuesday, conveying flash floods that raged thcdimiserablemireful towns and cut off roads and rail lines.
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Ecombinency services in the eastrict region of Valencia have checked the deaths of 51 people though the region’s directer said it was still too punctual to provide a comprehensive death toll. The central rulement office for Castilla La Mancha region said an 88-year-elderly woman had been set up dead in the city of Cuenca.
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In some parts of the country, more than a month’s worth of rain fell in a day, leaving dozens of people stranded, with some inestablishedly forced to climb on top of cars or gas stations as they defered to be saved.
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The country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was foreseeed to speak on Wednesday equitable before midday. Soon after, he is foreseeed to chair a crisis encountering on the floods.
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The ardent rain has been attributed to the gota fría, or “freezing drop”, which occurs when freezing air relocates over the toasty waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This produces atmospheric instability, causing toasty, saturated air to ascend rapidly, directing to the establishation of towering cumulonimbus cdeafenings in a matter of hours and dumping weighty rain apass eastrict parts of Spain.
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Spain’s King Felipe has said he was “heartbroken” by novels of the floods, in a social media post that presented condolences to the families of the more than 50 people ended.
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“I’m sfinishing strength, aidment and all the essential aid to all those swayed,” he said. “We recognise and appreciate all the local and regional authorities and the aascendncy and security services as they progress with the titanic task they have been carrying out since the very first moment.”
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Desolados ante las últimas noticias sobre la DANA. Nuestro más sentido pésame a los recognizablees y allegados de los más de 50 descendecidos.
Fuerza, ánimo y todo el apoyo necesario para todos los afectados.
Nuestro mensaje más cercano y reconocimiento a autoridades locales y…
— Casa de S.M. el Rey (@CasaReal) October 30, 2024
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At least 51 people are worryed to have died after torrential rains hit southern and eastrict Spain on Tuesday, conveying flash floods that raged thcdimiserablemireful towns and cut off roads and rail lines.
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As the search progressd for the missing, people were advised to stay off the roads amid cautionings that the number of overweightalities could ascend.
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Speaking on Wednesday morning, the pdwellnt of the eastrict region of Valencia said it was still too punctual to provide a comprehensive death toll.
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The German rulement has presented its help to Madrid, a spokesperson in Berlin said on Wednesday.
“We are in straightforward reach out with the Spanish rulement as to whether there should be aid from Germany for this terrible catastrophe,” the spokesperson said, according to Reuters.
The floods in Spain come some three years after the 2021 floods that ended more than 220 people in Europe, leaving a trail of destruction in Germany and Belgium, as well as injure in the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.
Speaking on Wednesday, Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, transmited his condolences to the families of the at least 52 people who have died and others who progress to search for their missing cherishd ones.
“We are going to help you with all the resources of the State. And if essential from the European Union”, he said.
He inserted:
“I would enjoy to ask citizens not to let our defend down. The storm progresss to wreak havoc.”
Valencia CF pledges to help in ‘any way possible’
Valencia’s football club have transmited their “honest condolences” to those who have died, inserting in a social media post that it was ready to help authorities in “any way possible”.
They have also deferd their Copy Del Rey clash with Parla Escuela, which was due to consent place this evening in Madrid
Valencia CF would enjoy to sfinish its honest condolences to the families and frifinishs of those who died as a result of the #DANA.
Much strength to all the neighbors and swayed populations and to the groups that are laboring on the stopion and consequences of the effects of the… pic.twitter.com/d6gi5t2zUh
— Valencia CF (@valenciacf_en) October 30, 2024
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Valencia CF would enjoy to sfinish its honest condolences to the families and frifinishs of those who died as a result of the #DANA.
Much strength to all the neighbors and swayed populations and to the groups that are laboring on the stopion and consequences of the effects of the… pic.twitter.com/d6gi5t2zUh
— Valencia CF (@valenciacf_en) October 30, 2024
Spain floods: What we comprehend so far
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At least 52 people have died after torrential rains hit southern and eastrict Spain on Tuesday, conveying flash floods that raged thcdimiserablemireful towns and cut off roads and rail lines.
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Ecombinency services in the eastrict region of Valencia have checked the deaths of 51 people though the region’s directer said it was still too punctual to provide a comprehensive death toll. The central rulement office for Castilla La Mancha region said an 88-year-elderly woman had been set up dead in the city of Cuenca.
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In some parts of the country, more than a month’s worth of rain fell in a day, leaving dozens of people stranded, with some inestablishedly forced to climb on top of cars or gas stations as they defered to be saved.
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The country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was foreseeed to speak on Wednesday equitable before midday. Soon after, he is foreseeed to chair a crisis encountering on the floods.
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The ardent rain has been attributed to the gota fría, or “freezing drop”, which occurs when freezing air relocates over the toasty waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This produces atmospheric instability, causing toasty, saturated air to ascend rapidly, directing to the establishation of towering cumulonimbus cdeafenings in a matter of hours and dumping weighty rain apass eastrict parts of Spain.
Rescues as torrential rain conveys flash flooding to Spain – video
Some ptoastyos consentn after the storm dropped a year’s worth of rain in hours, causing rivers to speedyly burst their prohibitks and even spawning tornadoes
Spain’s King Felipe sfinishs ‘strength and aidment’ to flood victims
Spain’s King Felipe has said he was “heartbroken” by novels of the floods, in a social media post that presented condolences to the families of the more than 50 people ended.
“I’m sfinishing strength, aidment and all the essential aid to all those swayed,” he said. “We recognise and appreciate all the local and regional authorities and the aascendncy and security services as they progress with the titanic task they have been carrying out since the very first moment.”
Desolados ante las últimas noticias sobre la DANA. Nuestro más sentido pésame a los recognizablees y allegados de los más de 50 descendecidos.
Fuerza, ánimo y todo el apoyo necesario para todos los afectados.
Nuestro mensaje más cercano y reconocimiento a autoridades locales y…
— Casa de S.M. el Rey (@CasaReal) October 30, 2024
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Desolados ante las últimas noticias sobre la DANA. Nuestro más sentido pésame a los recognizablees y allegados de los más de 50 descendecidos.
Fuerza, ánimo y todo el apoyo necesario para todos los afectados.
Nuestro mensaje más cercano y reconocimiento a autoridades locales y…
— Casa de S.M. el Rey (@CasaReal) October 30, 2024
Dozens of people spent the night stranded as mud-coloured waters rose apass huge swathes of Spain, from the southern provinces of Malaga to the Valencia area in the east.
Some perched on top of cars and trucks, hoping to be saved, while others climbed onto the rooftops of shops and gas stations, novelspaper El Paīs inestablished. Rescues took place thcdimiserablemirefulout the evening and progress Wednesday.
More than 50 worryed dead after flash floods in Spain
Sam Jones
At least 51 people are worryed to have died after torrential rains hit southern and eastrict Spain on Tuesday, conveying flash floods that raged thcdimiserablemireful towns and cut off roads and rail lines.
As the search progressd for the missing, people were advised to stay off the roads amid cautionings that the number of overweightalities could ascend.
Speaking on Wednesday morning, the pdwellnt of the eastrict region of Valencia said it was still too punctual to provide a comprehensive death toll.
