LA ALCUDIA: Following Tuesday’s intense rainstorm that submerged towns and roads in the eastern part of Valencia, local authorities said on Wednesday that at least 62 people had been murdered in the deadliest flooding to strike Spain in thirty years.
Emergency services were still trying to reach the worst-hit districts, while television footage from the town of Utiel showed rescuers using dinghies searching through the floodwaters in the dark and saving a number of people.
In a televised speech, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said, “The whole of Spain weeps with you for those who at this moment are still looking for their loved ones.”
“I say the same thing to the towns and cities devastated by this tragedy: We will work together to reconstruct your squares, your streets.
