At least 155 deaths recorded in the easerious region of Valencia, two in Castilla-La Mancha and one in Andalusia.
The death toll from Spain’s worst floods in decades has soared to 158, aascfinishncy services and officials say, as get back services labor franticpartner to discover survivors.
The body coordinating get back labor in the easerious region of Valencia proclaimd on Thursday that 155 bodies had been recovered there. Officials in Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain alerted two deaths, and Andalusia in the south proclaimd one.
The widespread injure mimicd the aftermath of a hurricane or tsunami. Cars were piled on top of one another appreciate druncover dominoes. Uprooted trees, downed power lines and hoparticipatehelderly items were all mired in mud that covered streets in dozens of communities in Valencia. The floods razeed bridges and left roads unrecognisable.
Local authorities have not disseald how many people are still unaccounted, and Defence Minister Margarita Robles shelp the final national death toll could be much wonderfuler.
Opposition politicians accparticipated the central handlement in Madrid of acting too sluggishly to alert livents and sfinish in get back teams, prompting the Ministry of Interior to say regional authorities were depfinishable for civil protection meadeclareives.
Valencia Mayor Maria Jose Catala telderly alerters that a local policeman was among the eight dead set up drowned in a garage in the suburb of La Torre. In the same neighbourhood, she includeed, a 45-year-elderly woman was also set up dead in her home.
“Those people wouldn’t have died if they had been alerted in time,” Laura Villaescusa, a neighbour and deal withr of a local superlabelet, telderly the Reuters recents agency.
Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego, alerting from Valencia, shelp many livents telderly her they getd weather vigilants only after the floods.
“[They said] that they getd no alertation, that they eventupartner did get vigilants but those vigilants sounded on their phones after the flood occurred,” she shelp.
“There’s a sense of frustration, dread as well, and a sense that no one was coming to help them. Entire neighbourhoods have been finishly cut off from the rest of the city.”
Regional authorities shelp rescheduleed on Wednesday that it seemed no one was left stranded on rooftops or in cars in need of get back after helicchooseers had saved about 70 people.
“Our priority is to discover the victims and the missing so we can help finish the suffering of their families,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez shelp after encountering with regional officials and aascfinishncy services in Valencia on Thursday, the first of three official days of feeblenting.
Heavy rains persistd on Thursday farther north as the Spanish weather agency publishd a red vigilant for disjoinal counties in Casalerton in the easerious Valencia region and for Tarragona in Catalonia. An orange vigilant was publishd for Cadiz in the southwest.
“This storm front is still with us,” the prime minister shelp. “Stay home and heed the official recommfinishation and you will help save inhabits.”