The number of deaths due to DANA now exceeds a hundred people. have been located THE dead bodies of eight people in a garage in the La Torre district (Valencia), also devastated by DANA, as sources close to the matter confirmed to EL ESPAÑOL.
Authorities are currently working on the investigation and identification of the victims, who were locked in this cellar.
Neighborhoods
The socialist spokesperson for Valencia City Hall, Borja Sanjuanasked the government team of María José Catalá that the emergency services of the municipality establish a special operation “as close as possible to the districts and municipalities affected by the DANA that devastated the province, to respond to their needs and provide to the victims of basic resources “.
Sanjuan spoke in these terms in a statement after walking the streets of villages in southern Valencia devastated by water, as The Tower either Castellar-Oliveral and verify “on site” that there are “hundreds of people crossing on foot to the other side of the Turia canal to look for the most basic supplies”.
“We approached the villages in the south of Valencia affected by DANA and the images are devastating. We found that there are hundreds of neighbors who had no choice but to cross on foot to get supplies such as water and food or, quite simply, to be able to recharge the cell phone because the electricity network has not yet been restored, said in a press release.
The socialist spokesperson informed the Municipal Council of “the need to establish a service point near the new canal as well as for the municipal emergency services to establish an operation as close as possible to the municipalities concerned”.
The socialist leader also informed the local government of the need to start working “immediately” on a mapping of resources “in order to make them available to victims”.
“Valencia City Hall must act as a true city of refuge, without forcing victims, for the moment, to travel miles to get the help they desperately need at the Alqueria del Basket or La Petxina,” he said. he declared.
In this sense, Sanjuan demanded that the local government team “do not maintain a passive attitude in the face of the tragedy that thousands and thousands of people have suffered” and demanded that València, “in addition to helping the residents villages in the south of the city, must also get closer to the rest of the affected municipalities, now that the lines of communication have been opened and not force the victims to travel tens of kilometers to receive help”, a- he concluded.
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