Survivors accuse regional government of errors as experts warn climate change is creating volatile natural disasters
The devastating floods that killed more than 220 people in Spain have delivered a stark warning on how official blunders can cause the failure of disaster alert systems in an era of hard-to-predict catastrophes.
Mazón continued with his regular schedule on the morning of October 29 and appeared in a video on social media platform X shortly after 1pm saying the rains were moving away. Teresa Ribera, Spain’s environment minister, said that by early evening it was clear Valencia “was not making the right decisions”. PP officials are trying to point the finger at Ribera, who is likely to become the top Socialist in the new European Commission.
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