Cleaning work on streets, houses and garages continues in the municipalities affected by the DANA which hit Valencia. Hundreds of residents are working alongside EMU troops and the military to try to clear the streets which continue to be laden with mud, mud and belongings from affected homes and businesses. The search for missing people also continues, particularly in garages and in places where cars, driven by the force of the water, pile up, creating real mouse traps.
The head of the UME, Javier Marcos, asked for “patience” to be able to face a chaotic situation in which tension sometimes rises between neighbors who see that they have lost everything and that aid is not available. not yet arrived.
But that’s not all, as the situation of devastation is aggravated by the fact that the rains have not stopped and continue to rain heavily in some of the affected towns.
How many victims are there because of DANA?
The death toll has exceeded 200, although it is estimated that it could rise significantly once clean-up work is carried out in hard-to-reach places, such as garages or under cars piled up in the streets .
DANA death toll reaches 215
The number of deaths caused by the passage of the DANA in the Valencian Community rises to 211 people, according to the latest update provided by Emergencies, while the census and identification process continues. The total number, including deaths from Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia, stands at 215.
Weather forecast for today
AEMET has activated the yellow rain alert in the south of the province of Tarragona, where cumulative rainfall of 30 mm is expected in one hour.
Marlaska indicates that in “the coming days” they will give the official number of missing people by DANA
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, announced that in “the coming days” he would announce the number of people missing due to the consequences of DANA. The minister explained the difficulties linked to the identification of people because, as he pointed out, “they are corpses in a complicated physical situation and that also determines the complexity”.