The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, recalled that at present the priority is the people reported missing since last Tuesday by DANA in the Valencian Community and Castilla-La Mancha, of whom she was unable to specify their number or their number. data, although he assured that “there are many“.
This Thursday, more than 36 hours after the worst cold wave of the century in the province of Valencia, which also affected the province of Albacete and other areas of the Mediterranean coast, the works of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) They will focus this morning on the search for missing people.
So far, the administrations have not provided definitive figures on the missing people, although emergency sources in the Valencian Community speak to ABC of “dozens”, reports Alberto Caparrós. “We cannot yet specify the data. There are a lot of missing people. “It would be premature,” the Defense Minister said in an interview with Telecinco’s “The Critical View.”
Yes, he confirmed that the EMU and the necessary reinforcement from the Army “will devote themselves above all, especially this morning, to the search for missing people”. He detailed this in places such as Paiporta or Massanassa There can be people in garages and basements, and that is precisely “the priority right now”.
The Defense Minister said that since yesterday, 1,205 EMU soldiers and more than 300 vehicles have been deployed, with occasional support from the army. According to the figures, these soldiers To date, they have rescued more than 110 peoplein addition to the bodies of 24 people. “There are 51 special teams, dog teams, precisely for these debris removal tasks, to see if there were any living people. Therefore, at present it is not possible to give the number of missing people,” he explained.
