Valencia is preparing for the worst news regarding the number of victims. During the day on Saturday Pedro Sanchez announced at a press conference 211 dead and this figure will increase in the coming hours as research continues. These focus on garages and basements that became death traps during the worst flooding in the history of Spain. In these areas, there are dozens of deaths and everything points to the worst, since there are hundreds that have not been opened because they are flooded.
Paiporta This is the area most affected by DANA which devastated this town of 27,000 inhabitants last Tuesday afternoon. A wave of almost two meters appeared by surprise around 7 p.m. and transformed the city into an area that appears to have been devastated by war. The dead number in the hundreds in this city and many of them were found in garages, which became death traps during the worst storm of the century.
The reason? The giant wave that severely devastated the city broke garage doors and swept people a few meters below. Many also perished trying to save their cars and others simply lost their lives due to the misfortune of being at the wrong time and place. For this reason, the deaths in these places number in the hundreds while the EMU And Civil defense They continue to drain many of them into a thankless task: on the ground floor they will only encounter death.
“Everything went very quickly. It was a split-second decision: save the cars or the lives. We decided to save our lives and tried to convince the neighbors not to come down. Some paid attention and can tell and unfortunately we haven’t seen others again,” he says. OKDIARIO one of the neighbors who lives on the upper floor of one of the garages transformed into a cemetery. Between Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the rescue teams evacuated all the deceased during dramatic days for the town.
“I saved my life by a miracle”
This newspaper was also able to see José recover his car. When the storm began to intensify, this neighbor Paiporta He took the risk of recovering his vehicle, which he had to leave on the parking ramp at his home. “I saved my life by a miracle. I was the last person to try to leave the garage, when I came out onto the street the water was half a meter high and I had to stay,” he said. OKDIARIO while a 4×4 takes out his car and smiles, specifying that the worst awaits him from now on for economic reasons.
In this garage located in the area closest to Paiporta No deaths have been recorded. Where they are expected is in other garages filled with water and where no one has yet been able to intervene. Personnel from the EMU, Civil Guard and Civil Protection are working overtime to drain authentic cemeteries located beneath the soil of a completely devastated city. Spain and Valencia are preparing for the worst in the coming days.
