The storm hitting Spain was particularly violent in Letur, a small town in the province of Albacete with around 900 registered inhabitants, where a waterspout on Tuesday caused a stream to overflow and caused considerable material damage to homes and vehicles. But the worst was confirmed by Milagros Tolón, government delegate in Castile-La Mancha: at least six people are missing in this enclave of the Sierra del Segura. Among them, two are municipal employees who were working with a van on a boulevard, as the 112 emergency service reported to ABC.
In addition, around 30 people had to be rescued and the Red Cross set up a temporary shelter at the “Notre-Dame de l’Assomption” school so that around 60 people, who could not return home, had a place to spend the night. . Part of the municipality was left without basic electricity and water supplies. From the Provincial Council it was explained that the problem was not so much the rain falling in the city but rather in the head of the basin, where it reached almost 200 liters per square meter.
“DANA devastated a large part of the city”Tolón said in a telephone conversation with the Spanish 24-hour television network late this afternoon. “The disaster is momentous”added Sergio Marín, the mayor. The government delegate explained that it was “lucky” that the army had “carried out very close maneuvers” and came to the rescue, joining the Civil Guard and firefighters in the search for the missing, including with air assets. Meanwhile, Letur City Hall has activated two telephone numbers (967 426 224 And 622,283,941) to be able to deal with possible emergencies.
For its part, since the activation of the Meteocam (at eleven o’clock Monday evening) until Tuesday at 6 p.m., Emergencies 112 recorded 69 incidents linked to heavy rains: 24 in the province of Albacete, 22 in Ciudad Real . , eleven in Cuenca, nine in Toledo and three in Guadalajara. One of them was the closure of the CM-412 highway, near Molinicos (Albacete), due to a landslide that completely covered the roadway.
Page and Núñez will visit the municipality this Wednesday
Emiliano García-Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha, published on his social networks his “immense gratitude for the promptness and speed of all the emergency services”, hoping “that the people wanted in Letur appear in good health and May they be saved.” ” Page will visit the municipality of Albacete today, Wednesday, according to Council sources. Paco Núñez, leader of the opposition, will also do so.
