Rescue teams are searching for survivors and bodies after flash flooding swept through large areas of Spain, following a year’s worth of rain in one day. At least 205 people have died, mostly in the Valencia region, according to local authorities.
Hundreds of volunteers stream in as police fear more bodies hidden
Hundreds of people in cars and on foot have been streaming in to the hardest hit areas to help.
There are so many people making their way to Chiva, Valencia, that authorities have asked them not to drive or walk because they are blocking the roads needed by the emergency services.
Early this morning there was still no running water there, and police kept searching the gorge, smashed homes and underground garages, concerned that the mud could be hiding more bodies.
“Entire houses have disappeared. We don’t know if there were people inside or not,” Mayor Amparo Fort told RNE radio.
Elsewhere in the suburbs, emergency services working to clear cars piled up at the entrance of a flooded underpass also feared finding more trapped bodies.
“We’re trying to remove vehicles bit by bit to see if there are victims,” one rescue worker told state television.
“We don’t know.”
Back in Chiva, residents and volunteers have been shovelling and sweeping out the layers of mud that coat the floors of the ruined shops and homes.
The storm unleashed more rain on the area in eight hours than the town had experienced in the preceding 20 months.
Elsewhere in the suburbs, emergency services working to clear cars piled up at the entrance of a flooded underpass also feared finding more trapped bodies.
“We’re trying to remove vehicles bit by bit to see if there are victims,” one rescue worker told state television.
“We don’t know.”
Back in Chiva, residents and volunteers have been shovelling and sweeping out the layers of mud that coat the floors of the ruined shops and homes.
The storm unleashed more rain on the area in eight hours than the town had experienced in the preceding 20 months.
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