UME finds no deaths in Bonaire shopping center underground parking lot after inspecting 50 vehicles

Emergency services were able to access the shopping center parking lot Bonaireone of the points that worried the most due to its large size, since it has 5,700 seats.

However, on the morning of this Monday it was possible to inspect the first 50 vehicles, in which no bodies were foundas confirmed by the EMU.

That’s not to say victims can’t be found throughout the day as work on the parking lot progresses. It’s still unclear how many cars there could be inside.

The UME continues to draw water from the parking lot of this shopping center Aldaïa (Valencia), badly damaged after the passage of DANA.

Since Wednesday, crews have been extracting water and mud. On Sunday, there was still a meter and a half of water in the underground car park and there were incursions by boats and kayaks.

According to the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Victor Torresthis Sunday, a total of 50 people are working, with the help of four machines and a kayak, to evacuate the water from the underground car park.

“We no longer have information on the people or vehicles inside,” he stressed.

seventh day

The Valencian Community woke up this Monday, the seventh of DANA, a natural disaster that, for the moment, has left 210 dead in the province, with devastated towns, mobility restrictions and blocked roads.

For this day it is activated the yellow alert north of Castellón. In addition, emergency situation 2 remains activated due to flooding throughout the province of Valencia and throughout the province of Castellón.

Faced with this situation, the authorities advise the population to stay at home and, if possible, in elevated areas.

Cecopi extended the traffic restrictions by two days due to the extreme risk of collapse of the main entry and exit routes to Valencia.

For their part, emergency services continue to work. About him around 5,000 soldiers are deployed on the ground and some 2,100 technical resources.

More than 1,700 members of the provincial firefighting consortia, forest firefighters of the Generalitat and Civil Protection were also deployed, as well as more than 300 firefighters from other autonomy.

In the area of ​​citizen security, the National Police Corps has approximately 1,800 agents and the Civil Guard another 2,750, as well as more than 440 members of the various local police forces.