BARRIO DE LA TORRE, Spain (AP) — Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain in this century awoke to scenes of devastation on Thursday, after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods that claimed at least 95 lives.
BARRIO DE LA TORRE, Spain — Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain in this century awoke to scenes of devastation on Thursday, after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods that claimed at least 95 lives.
“The neighborhood is destroyed, all the cars are on top of each other, it’s literally smashed up,” said Christian Viena, the owner of a wrecked bar in Barrio de la Torre. While the greatest suffering was inflicted on municipalities near the city of Valencia, the storms unleashed their fury over huge swaths of the south and eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Two fatalities were reported in the neighboring Castilla La Mancha region. Southern Andalusia reported one death.
“This storm front is still with us,” Sánchez said. “Stay home and heed the official recommendation and you will help save lives.”Over a thousand soldiers from Spain’s emergency rescue units joined regional and local emergency workers in the search for bodies and survivors. The soldiers had recovered 22 bodies and rescued 110 people by Wednesday night.
A man wept on the footage of the national broadcaster RTVE while showing the shell of what was once the ground floor of his home in Catarroja, a town south of Valencia. It looked like a bomb had gone off inside and obliterated his furniture and belongings, even stripping the paint off some of the walls and leaving mud in its wake.The violent weather event surprised regional government officials.
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