The death toll caused by the worst cold spell of the 21st century in Spain continues to rise and now exceeds a hundred deaths in Valencia alone. This Thursday, two days after the rainstorm that devastated the province, the police discovered the bodies of eight residents in a building on Calle Mariano Brull, in the district of The Tower.
The victims were in the building’s garage when they were surprised by the flooding caused by DANA. According to initial investigations, the water would have trapped them when they went down to remove their cars, which would have become a death trap.
As you may have known ABCAmong the dead are a couple and their daughter who went down to collect their vehicles Tuesday afternoon. Also a local police officer.
In the city of Valencia, as confirmed by Mayor María José Catalá, the number of deaths rises to thirteen, the majority in La Torre. Among them, a woman found dead in her home and another person who had been found alive, but who died this morning in hospital.
The district of La Torre, in the municipality of Valenceis located next to the new channel of the Turía River and suffered the waterspout that flooded the V-30 on the worst day of the DANA, where up to 500 liters per square meter accumulated in the province.
A photo posted on social networks with the Dantesque appearance of the area became one of the images that showed the scale of the swamp that devastated the metropolitan area of Valencia.
The latest official report proposed by the Generalitat puts the number of deaths due to the effects of the cold at 92, but the missing people are countless, so it is feared that the tragic statistics will skyrocket in the coming hours.
