Four days later, authorities have recovered 211 bodies - most of them in the eastern Valencia region - as they continued to search for an unknown number of missing people.
In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands saw livelihoods shattered.
In the blink of an eye, the muddy water covered roads, railways and entered houses and businesses in villages on the southern outskirts of Valencia city. Drivers had to take shelter on car roofs, while residents tried to take refuge on higher ground.Spain's national weather service said that in the hard-hit locality of Chiva it rained more in eight hours than it had in the preceding 20 months, calling the deluge "extraordinary.
People clear away mud from inside a flood damaged cemetery on the outskirts of Valencia, Spain, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 after flooding in the region. Older people in Paiporta, ground zero of the tragedy, claim that Tuesday's floods were three times as bad as those of 1957, which caused at least 81 deaths and were the worst in the history of the tourist eastern region. That episode led to the diversion of the Turia watercourse, which meant that a large part of the city was spared of these floods.
A man reacts as he waits for news of his relatives trapped during the floods in Valencia, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. At present there are some 2000 soldiers from the Military Emergency Unit, the army's first intervention force for natural disasters and humanitarian crises, involved in the emergency work, as well as almost 2500 Civil Guard gendarmes — who have carried out 4500 rescues during the floods — and 1800 national police officers.
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