The true dimensions of the devastating DANA which devastated the province of Valence are still unknown. To date, the latest official death toll caused by the worst cold snap of the 21st century stands at 202 people, as reported by the Generalitat on Friday.
In an attempt to get closer to the true scale of the tragedy, the emphasis is now placed on the missing, for whom no official data has yet been communicated. Since DANA devastated the province of Valencia on Tuesday, the Generalitat has received 5,090 phone calls 900 365 112made it possible to account for those lost. This figure was reduced by half over the days, thanks to the restoration of telephone connections (many affected towns found themselves without coverage due to the storm).
Only in the count analyzed this Friday by the authorities, the list of people considered missing was reduced by six hundred. Thus, the figure processed this Thursday morning remains at 2,500.
Sources of Valencian generality Consulted by ABC, they insist that this figure corresponds to calls and hope that it will decrease as the days go by. The regional president, Carlos Mazón, explained on Thursday the reasons why the estimate of missing people has not yet been made public after the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) to face the crisis, to which participated for the first time the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska.
Mazon He indicated that “there are countless technical staff who are updating the number of missing people” and that the triage is not yet complete, because we continue to receive calls from families who have found their loved ones or their loved ones. The Valencian president insisted on the request so that those who communicated with the 900 365 112 In the event of a disappearance, call to indicate that you have already located your loved ones. At the same time, emergency technicians “do a tremendous amount of work” to return calls that allow them to know the status of alerts.
Mazon He insisted that today we cannot offer an estimate of missing people because that is what “the technicians who work on sorting these figures ask us to do.”
In this context, the deployment of emergency operations, reinforced since Friday by new soldiers, has made it possible to find new bodies in the cities most affected by the crisis. DANA such as Paiporta (where at least sixty deaths are already estimated), Alfafar, Mareny de Barraquetes or Ribarroja.
