The Military Emergency Unit (UME) and some of the last users who had their vehicle in the Bonaire Shopping Center Parking They exclude the mass discovery of DANA victims inside this facility.
According to UME sources consulted by EL ESPAÑOL, emergency specialists managed to examine the security cameras of the complex and verified that they No one is visible inside the parking lot.
Concretely, the UME focused on viewing the recordings recorded by the center’s devices last Tuesday around 9 p.m., when the parking lot began to flood, at the start of the tragedy in Valencia caused by the catastrophic and deadly stream.
According to military sources confirm to EL ESPAÑOL, currently UME soldiers They managed to extract 55,000 liters of water. They relentlessly drained the waterlogged area for 3 days, which caused huge concern due to its large size. With 5,700 parking spaces, this shopping center has the largest underground car park in the entire Valencian Community.
Eyewitnesses consulted by this newspaper also confirm that it was possible to verify how the little movement in the last moments before the tragedy would help rule out a massive discovery of bodies, predicted for days by many fearful citizens and some accounts with thousands of followers on social networks.
“We were among the last to leave, with two or three additional cars“, one of these people told EL ESPAÑOL. This individual went to the cinema on site the same afternoon as the flood. Around 8:30 p.m., the water was already entering massively through the parking lot exit, so that person had no choice but to exit through the front door, as he had arrived.
At that point, he said he didn’t see anyone inside. The water came in gradually, but not in a few minutes, as has been the case in recent days.
Drain and inlet
At that time, the continuous drainage of water had already enabled agents to the General Commission of Scientific Police They can check the interior of the place with the EMU. This morning, they managed to access the parking lot after several days of emptying. They managed to get there with a raft. So far, they have searched 50 vehicles and found no bodies.
That’s not to say victims can’t be found throughout the day as work on the parking lot progresses. It is not yet known how many cars there may be inside, although sources consulted within the Armed Forces indicate that last Tuesday there were at most “a hundred” vehicles at the time of the flood, as verified by the recordings.
In the first days after the tragedy, there was speculation that the tragedy would be major, with hundreds dead underwater. At the moment, nothing could be further from the truth. “Unless the water has a suction effect on the people who wanted to leave with the car, there will not be 500 bodies,” say the sources consulted. No lifeless body has yet appeared underwater or is floating there.
Since Wednesday, crews have been extracting water and mud. On Sunday, there was still a meter and a half of water in the underground car park and there were incursions by boats and kayaks. According to the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Victor TorresThis Sunday, a total of 50 people worked, with the help of four machines and a kayak, to evacuate the water from the underground car park.
The Valencian Community woke up this Monday, the seventh of DANA, a natural disaster that, for the moment, has left 210 dead in the province, with devastated towns, mobility restrictions and blocked roads.
