The flood of deaths continues, adding to the macabre statistics of deaths caused by DANA which devastated the province of Valencia a week ago today. The latest official figure is 216 people killed in this tragedy throughout Spain, most of them in Valencia (211 according to the latest updated data), as Cecopi (Integrated Center for Operational Coordination) reported this Tuesday.
Offices ante mortem permitted by the National Police and the Civil Guard in collaboration with forensic doctors, as of 8 p.m. this Tuesday, there were 89 cases of active disappearances due to the damage and floods that affected the province of Valencia on October 29, according to the figures from the Data Integration Center (CID).
The statistics have been increasing little by little in recent days because, as the government delegate of the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, explained on Monday, surface research has been completed and inspection tasks in the canals and underground are currently being carried out. course. .
Regarding the works carried out in the affected areas, in the regions of Ribera Alta and Ribera Baja, work continues for the removal of goods and, shortly, a return to normal is expected. In the Requena-Utiel area, infrastructure restoration and cleaning works are being completed.
As for L’Horta Sud, the search for possible victims is still ongoing, for which drones are also used, especially in the area of the Magro river and the Rambla del Poyo. This research is supplemented by canine tracking units.
Currently, more than 1,700 firefighters from 42 agencies and 7,800 military personnel are deployed on the ground. In the area of citizen security, there are currently a total of 6,000 members of the National Police and the Civil Guard, more than 400 members of the various local police forces and more than a hundred agents of the Police. the Generalitat.
Help for those affected
The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, asks the central government for aid of 31.4 billion euros for the areas affected by the cold fall. On Monday, the head of the Consell requested a supplement to aid for cleaning homes and the purchase of vehicles, a supplement to the Valencian inclusion income and a package for the reconstruction of infrastructure and industrial zones. The Generalitat Valenciana will invest an additional 250 million euros in the reconstruction of affected areas.
For his part, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced on Tuesday a plan of 10.6 billion euros with aid of up to 60,000 euros for each household affected by the storm and explained that the Council of ministers approved an “emergency” decree-law in “that all economic, labor and tax aid be compiled” for those affected by the environmental disaster.
4,100 hectares affected
The Copernicus satellite service, activated by the European Commission at the request of Spain to assess the impact of DANA in the Valencian Community, revealed more than 4,100 hectares of surface and 3,906 buildings affected by flooding in the Valencian area of South Horta.
The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS), activated at 2:30 p.m. in Spain on October 29, today communicated the data provided by its visualizations of this region, in which it estimates that there are more than 60,000 people affected , 15.2 km of railways and 531.6 kilometers of roads.
This data refers to a posting on October 31 at 10:22 a.m. in Spain.
Appearance of Mazón to the Cortes
The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, will appear before the Valencian courts on Thursday, November 14 to give public explanations on the management of DANA which devastated part of the province of Valencia. This was accepted on Tuesday by the College of Mediators, after receiving a letter from the president in which he requests to appear before the plenary session of the Autonomous Parliament to report on the damage, and the requests for appearance presented by the parliamentary groups.
