The confirmed deaths in Valencia are more than two hundred (202 people in the Comunidad Valenciana alone, 295 in total) but the reports of the missing continue, around 1900, who are being searched for relentlessly with the hope of saving them. But “it is reasonable to think that we will have more deaths,” said the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. The images that arrive from the areas of Valencia, La Torre, Catarroja, Paiporta, Picanya, Sedavì, Alfafar, exhausted by the floods of last Tuesday and Wednesday in southern Spain, tell of a devastation that seems to have no end, with lifeless people they continue to be found in underpasses, trapped in their cars. There are trucks that have arrived to take away the bodies from the exhibition pavilions where they were initially taken, near the airport. An apocalypse that Daniel Burgueta professor at an English academy located in Paiporta, experienced firsthand being trapped inside the structure together with his students. The images show him with the water almost up to his chest while with a stick he tries to break down the front door blocked by the rising water. After a few knocks, the door opens and Daniel starts going back and forth, rescuing all the children and other professors stuck in the academy. “If we had stayed inside, we would all have died,” he told El Pais. «I don’t consider myself a hero. Today while I was cleaning the academy a father came crying saying that he owes me his life, but no, it’s not like that. Now the heroes should be the politicians and do their job.”
Daniel’s words capture the controversy that is fueling itself hour by hour, with the government and the authorities accused of not doing enough (in recent hours another 500 soldiers have been sent to join the 1200 already employed in the search for the missing) and of having sent the weather warning message late in some areas, while the coming and going of the mud angels who arrived in thousands and thousands with shovels, cans of water, nappies for children and basic necessities does not stop. «I felt compelled to be there.” tell The Press Elia Valente, 36 year old teacher. “We brought some food and water because there are still tens of thousands of people without drinking water”. There are over 360 thousand people without water and almost 80 thousand without electricity. The images show elderly people crying in front of what remains of their homes, people of all ages trying to free the floors from the mud, torn up roads, crying rescuers, games covered in mud. But also the supermarkets and shops emptied in the last few hours, with several complaints and arrests for robberies and thefts. «They are looking for high-value, space-saving objects that they can put in their backpacks, such as computers, mobile phones or branded perfumes»explained a policeman.
«Many people were on the lower floors of the houses, in the garages, trying to save their cars, there may still be people alive among those who find themselves in this situation»said the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, on national TV, referring to the inhabitants of the municipalities in the area south of Valencia. “There are places where there are cars stacked on top of other cars and vehicles where there could be people inside.”
Source: Vanity Fair
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