The death toll from floods in Spain rises to 222

Most of the deaths are concentrated in the Valencia region, where the local government has been the subject of protests and accusations of slowness in responding to the disaster brought the provisional number of confirmed victims to 222 on Sunday (11/10), heavy torrential rains of end of October which especially penalized Valencia, where the local government was the target of protests and accusations of slowness in responding to the disaster.

In this region of eastern Spain alone, the total number of deaths reaches 214. The other victims are seven people who died in the border region of Castile-La Mancha (center) and another in Andalusia (south).

Of these, 195 bodies have already been identified and 140 have been handed over to their families.

Furthermore, according to the latest update of official data on the effects of the major storm and the severe flooding that followed on October 29, 36,803 people had to be rescued from dangerous situations.

The total number of municipalities affected is 78, of which 75 are in Valencia, two in Castile-La Mancha and one in Andalusia.

In addition to personal damage, the natural disaster caused multimillion-dollar material losses in private property of all types (houses, cars, businesses and farms) and in public infrastructure and services (roads, railway lines, telephone and electricity), which are being restored little by little.

The 156,126 compensation requests submitted to the Insurance Compensation Consortium give an idea of ​​the extent of the effects of the tragedy. Of these, 50,679 correspond to residences and 92,779 to vehicles.

Since the start of the crisis, 343 people have been arrested for crimes such as looting.

Protests

On Saturday, thousands of protesters called for the departure of the governor of the autonomous community of Valencia, Carlos Mazón, and his number two, Susana Camarero, accusing the regional government of having been too slow in responding to the catastrophe that hit the province.

Speaking at a press conference to take stock of civil protection, Susana Camarero said that the fall of the government “is not an option” and that the objective is to work on the recovery and reconstruction of the devastated area.

For his part, Carlos Mazón (PP, center-right) said he respected Saturday’s demonstration, shared “this pain” and regretted the riots and acts of vandalism.

Also this Sunday, the national PP expressed its support, from Madrid, to the regional executive which “defended itself at all times” before a national government (PSOE, centre-left), which “refused to take charge of the largest national emergency of Spain” in recent years.

On Saturday, 130,000 people gathered in Valencia to protest the regional government’s response to the crisis, criticism that Susana Camarero said she understood.

“We regret that the pain of those affected is being politicised. It pains us as a government that there were violent groups who, at the end of a peaceful demonstration showing this pain, caused riots and acts of vandalism which distort the objective of the demonstration and the message of pain for this tragedy”, he underlined, accusing the national government of wanting to attribute responsibility for the response to the regional government.

Jps (EFE, Lusa, ots)

Source: Terra

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