People stand on a bridge over damaged cars on a mud-covered road in the aftermath of torrential rains that caused flooding, in Picanya, Spain on Thursday.
Crews searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings Thursday as people tried to salvage what they could from their ruined homes following monstrous flash floods in Spain that claimed at least 158 lives, with 155 deaths confirmed in the region of Valencia.The Associated PressPeople stand on a bridge over damaged cars on a mud-covered road in the aftermath of torrential rains that caused flooding in Picanya, Spain on Thursday.
"Unfortunately, there are dead people inside some vehicles," said Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente. Luís Sanchez, a welder, watched as the storm turned the V-31 highway south of Valencia city into a floating graveyard strewn with hundreds of vehicles.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced after meeting with regional officials and emergency services in Valencia on Thursday the first of three official days of mourning.
Two fatalities were reported in the neighbouring Castilla La Mancha region and one in southern Andalusia. Emilion García-Page, regional president for Castilla La Mancha, said that at least one police officer was among several missing in the town of Letur. "We are searching house by house," Angel Martínez, with a military emergency unit, told Spain's national radio broadcaster RNE from the town of Utiel, where at least six people died.Some 150,000 people in Valencia were without electricity on Wednesday, but roughly half had power by Thursday, Spanish news agency EFE reported.
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