Rescue teams headed to the area hardest hit by DANA in Valencia, leaving at least more than 200 deadthey work intensively in ravines and underground parking lots looking for missing people.
Furthermore, around twenty Cartagena Navy divers since Monday, she has been traveling through the Albufera Natural Park, in Valencia, looking for bodies, under the coordination of the Military Emergency Unit (UME).
These troops arrived this Monday morning in Valencia directly from the maneuvers. The first point in Albufera they will go to is where several vehicles were found dragged into the Poyo ravine, the torrent that caused the biggest flood of the night of October 29to check if there are people inside.
The team worked all day in the Albufera and is made up of nine members of the Cartagena Naval Diving Center and eleven members of the Cartagena Special Naval General Force. All of these divers belong to special forces and have drone pilots and boat personnel.
This morning, the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabéexplained that troops are currently focused on “entrying the canals and underground” of the areas affected by DANA in the province of Valencia, while “no more” casualties have been detected on the surface.
The number of deaths in the Valencian Community has not changed in the last 48 hours and amounts to 210. According to Bernabé, in the last two days “nothing more was detected“died on the surface and that is why the data is not updated.
“Now we are in the next phase of entry into the canals, into the metro, in which the entire army and firefighters are working intensively, precisely to reduce them, and this is where the pace of the number of victims could possibly change,” he explained.
Regardless, he guaranteed that information on the number of deaths will be communicated as before through the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat.
