Spanish authorities have recorded 89 people missing in floods in the east of the country last week, according to official data published on Tuesday.
This is the first time that the number of people missing after the floods, which mainly affected the province of Valencia, in the autonomous community of the Valencian Community, has been officially revealed. The floods also killed at least 217 people, according to the most recent official reports.
The 89 missing people were counted until 8:00 p.m. this Tuesday (7:00 p.m. in Lisbon) by the structures of the National Police and the Civil Guard created for this purpose and in which forensic doctors also work.
These missing persons cases They correspond exclusively to complaints. in which relatives provided information about the people they are looking foras well as biological samples that will later allow the victims to be identified, if the bodies are found, as explained this Tuesday by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, under whose supervision is the Data Integration Center (CID). , a structure that works in cases like last week’s storm.
The CID highlighted, in a statement, that this figure may not correspond to the total number of people missing in the floods, due to the possibility that some cases have not yet been reported and because there are currently 62 bodies still unidentified in morgues from Valencia, whose data will have to be crossed with those of the disappeared.
According to the CID, 195 autopsies have been conducted so far on those who died in the floods.
Source: Observadora
