The deadliest flash floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 211 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has ordered 5,000 more troops to be deployed to deal with the aftermath of the devastating and destructive floods that swept the country this week.
Sanchez, speaking after presiding over a meeting of the flood crisis committee, said the government was using all the resources to get over the “terrible tragedy” of the floods from which Valencia suffered the worst.
Due to the high stakes of the doom that has fallen on Spain, Sanchez said the country witnessed “the largest deployment of armed forces and police personnel that’s ever been seen in our country during peacetime.
It has so far carried out 4,800 rescues and helped more than 30,000 people in their homes, on the roads, and in flooded industrial estates.”
The storm triggered a new weather alert in the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, and Valencia, where rains are expected to continue during the weekend.
The floods that struck Spain this week are Europe’s worst flood disaster since 1967 when at least 500 people died in Portugal due to the natural catastrophe.
