Victims of the flash floods in Spain are beginning to coming to terms with what has happened in the last 24 hours.
One survivor said ‘I thought we would end up in the sea’ as the survivors of the flash floods in Spain come to terms with devastation of the natural disaster that has destroyed two regions of Spain.
At least 70 people have died due to flooding in the eastern Spanish province, as confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior, after almost a year’s worth of rain fell in just a few hours.
Victims of the flash floods in Spain
Garrote was returning home from work in the Valencian town of Torrent and at around 8 p.m. she was trapped by water along with hundreds of other drivers for nearly seven hours on a stretch of the Valencia ring road.
Just after midnight in Spain the flash floods had crippled parts of the country. Beatriz Garrote, former president of the association of victims of the 2006 metro accident in Valencia, writes on her X profile: “We are stuck on the [highway] V-30. We can see the river rising and we’re worried. Can you give us any indication?
The stretch of road where Garrote was located was flooded in half an hour and they had nowhere to go.
Thousands of people affected by the floods
Garrote is one of thousands of people affected by the floods. At least 72 people killed in Spanish flash floods in Valencia and Seville, as confirmed by the Integrated Operational Coordination Center of the Ministry of the Interior, which collects information from various security and emergency services.
Thousands are still missing in many areas, there is still no mobile phone or internet coverage, increasing the anguish of those who cannot contact their loved ones.