CHIVA, Spain. (AP) — Spanish emergency authorities on Friday raised the death toll from devastating flash floods to at least 205 victims, 202 of them in Valencia alone.
CHIVA, Spain. — Spanish emergency authorities on Friday raised the death toll from devastating flash floods to at least 205 victims, 202 of them in Valencia alone.
“The situation is unbelievable. It’s a disaster and there is very little help,” said Emilio Cuartero, a resident of Masanasa, on the outskirts of Valencia. “We need machinery, cranes, so that the sites can be accessed. We need a lot of help. And bread and water.” “I have been there all my life, all my memories are there, my parents lived there ... and now in one night it is all gone,” Chiva resident Juan Vicente Pérez told The Associated Press near the place he lost his home. “If we had waited five more minutes, we would not be here in this world.”
And as authorities repeat over and over, more storms are expected. The Spanish weather agency issued alerts for strong rains in Tarragona, Catalonia, as well as part of the Balearic Islands. “There are people living with corpses at home. It’s very sad. We are organizing ourselves, but we are running out of everything," he told reporters."We go with vans to Valencia, we buy and we come back, but here we are totally forgotten.”
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