The death toll from extreme bad weather in Spain has risen to 104, after nine people were found dead in the city of Valencia, local authorities announced.
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The number of fatalities due to extreme bad weather in Spain rose to 104after nine people were found dead this Thursday in the city of Valencia, local authorities announced.
Eight of the new victims were found in a garage and a woman was found at her home, according to the mayor, María José Catalá, cited by the Spanish agency Europa Press. Among the eight people who died in the garage there is a police officer location.
In addition to the 101 deaths in the Valencian Community, there are two more confirmed fatalities in Castilla La Mancha and another in Andalusia. Since Tuesday, several regions of Spain have been under the influence of an “isolated high-level depression,” a meteorological phenomenon known as DANA in Spanish and DINA in Portuguese.
The phenomenon caused torrential rains and incidents in various parts of Spain, especially on the Mediterranean coast.
The most affected region was the Valencian Community, in the east of the country, with unprecedented levels of rain, which caused the most serious alerts and warnings from Civil Protection and Meteorology on Tuesday night.
It is one of the most serious natural disasters of the last 75 years in Spain, even surpassing the Biescas (Huesca) floods in 1996, with 87 deaths, and the Turia floods in 1957, in which between 80 and 100 died. people.
Source: Observadora
