With no time to grab any of their belongings, a family in the Spanish city of Torrent is left to salvage precious memories from the wreckage after flash floods smashed through their home.
From filthy mud-caked bags Isabel picks through the only belongings she has left in the world. Grimy clothes and broken furniture among the remnants left behind by the flood in the Spanish city of Torrent. She picks up some nail varnish. 'What a disaster,' she says. The river to her house filled with water during Tuesday's flash flooding until it smashed through the front door and burst out through the wall.
The family only got out alive because they took themselves to higher ground when the water started to rise, they didn't wait for the official warning. Read more:Spain floods: 'No one came to rescue us'Why flooding in Spain has been so deadlyDeadly flood damage is 'utterly random' In the living room, Angel's sister Amparo tries to find anything that can be salvaged. The flood took the house but also the memories - precious reminders of a mum and dad who are no longer here.
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