The tragedy of DANA in Valencia He especially targeted the town of Paiportalocated less than five kilometers from the southern access to the capital of Turia. There, more than 40 people remain missing after a fateful night and the dead are counted in the dozens. Six of them were elderly people from a residence where they were surprised by the waterspout while they were having dinner.
According to police sources, around 8:00 p.m. this Tuesday the water entered the senior center and the staff was able to take practically all of them to the first floor, but five died. In fact, the mayor of the town, María Isabel Albalat Asensi, in statements to À Punt, has raised the number of fatalities to 40, including the six elderly people who died in the residence.
Municipal sources indicate that the situation in Paiporta after the passage of DANA is “dramatic” and “humanitarian emergency«and they have highlighted that there are communication and coverage problems throughout the municipality.
Likewise, they have confirmed that families are looking for “dozens of missing people” who have not been able to be contacted, but they have not specified how many there are. The City Council and the Local Police ask the population to avoid going out and to stay in their homes.
Those who live on ground or lower floors have been asked to go up to higher floors or to the first and second floors of relatives or neighbors. There are many ground floors of the town flooded and members of the Military Emergency Unit (EMU) work in the municipality. It is requested to call 112 to report any incident and use the telephone number that the Generalitat has enabled to locate missing persons if necessary.
Until now, the Valencian Generalitat, through the Emergency Coordination Center, has estimated 70 fatalities that DANA leaves, in a provisional balance. Since the end of this Tuesday, the Multiple Victims Procedure was activated, which is carrying out the balance of deaths through the information received from the different security and emergency bodies and forces.
The authorities continue the process of surveying and identifying the victims, according to the Generalitat. He Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia has activated nine forensic teams to travel to the places affected by the rains in order to carry out the surveys of the bodies and carry out the pertinent reviews, according to the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community. The duty judges of the affected judicial districts are delegating these procedures to specialists and the State Security Forces and Bodies, according to the TSJCV.
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