A few hours after the President of the Government announced the deployment of 10,000 additional soldiers to alleviate the DANA tragedy that occurred in Valencia, the crisis committee met again this Sunday in La Moncloa, where support for the five groups of The intervention was immediately confirmed on Saturday. the president of the Generalitat requested the creation and also the declaration of a seriously affected area, which will be officially declared on Tuesday in Council of Ministers.
Ángel Víctor Torres was responsible for providing an update on the meeting as well as the situation in the most affected area. The Minister of Territorial Policy brought the official death toll to 213 and he avoided talking about missing people, some reports putting the number at around 1,900. “We cannot provide data on missing people. “We must be absolutely rigorous,” he justified, shortly before discussing one of the black spots at Ground Zero, the Bonaire Shopping Centerwhere there are expected to be several bodies inside the still flooded parking lot. “At the moment there are 50 people working there, four machines and a kayak, which are emptying the water and we cannot speculate. What we have to do is continue the work and we no longer have any information to give on the number of people who could be inside,” he said.
Torres took stock of the work carried out by the various troops deployed in the areawho has already cleaned and put into operation several infrastructures and also spoke about the compensations and compensations that could begin to arrive next week after the Insurance Consortium has carried out assessments during these days.
Regarding the late response, recognized by the President of the Government himself, and the accusations of disloyalty made by the Generalitat, Torres asked not “getting into controversies”. “The Autonomous State has established the different levels in an alert of this type and each time an administration has difficulties it asks to move it to the next level. At the moment the responsibilities lie with the Valencian Community and if you ask us for new troops, we will give them to you,” he said.
He also warned of rain expected in the coming hours and asked the population to be careful and stay at home while waiting for alerts from Aemet.
