Storm leaves numerous dead in Spain

New storms will shake Spain this Wednesday and will aggravate the disaster of floods and river overflows in recent hours due to torrential rains, especially in the Valencian Community (east). The number of fatalities has had to be updated several times, and now exceeds 60.

Although the situation will begin to ease this Wednesday, eight autonomous communities still remain on alert for heavy rains, three of them, Andalusia (south), Castilla-La Mancha (center) and Catalonia (northeast), with significant risk, at orange level. , according to the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).

The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, announced that “the multiple victims procedure” has been activated. The Military Emergency Unit (UME) has been deployed in several Valencian municipalities and continues with rescue and evacuation tasks of people in flooded areas.

On the other hand, this morning the Government of Castilla-La Mancha has also requested the activation of the UME due to the effects of the rain in the province of Cuenca, and in Albacete the search for missing persons continues.

The “cold drop” suffered by the Valencian Community is the worst of this 21st century, comparable to those experienced in 1987 and 1982, according to the first balance sheet offered by Aemet on the social network X.

There will be time to make a deeper assessment, but it is being “catastrophic” from a climate point of view.

The Government has created a crisis committee to monitor the storm and those responsible for the Emergency operation in Valencia have met early in the morning to analyze the serious situation that is greatly complicating rescue efforts due to the complexity of access to the victims, as Mazón admitted.

The Metrovalencia service remains suspended until further notice and no activity is planned for this Wednesday morning; In addition, educational centers in part of the province of Valencia, including those in the capital, remain closed this Wednesday.