The first official data places 89 people missing by DANA in Valencia, although there are 62 unidentified bodies.

For the first time, initial data is offered on the cases of active missing persons as a result of the worse cold drop of the 21st century.

The figures released this Tuesday “correspond exclusively to complaints where the relatives have provided different information and provided biological samples that allow the subsequent identification of their relatives.

The statistics have been compiled by the ante mortem offices enabled by the National Police and the Civil Guard in collaboration with forensic doctors.

Reports of missing persons DANA in Valencia with an active file in the ante mortem offices “do not equal the total number of missing people that the tragedy could have generated, since there may be cases that have not yet been reported.”

To know the exact extent of mortality caused by DANA in Valencia We will have to wait “several weeks”, since the sources consulted by ABC They expect there to be “a trickle” of body finds. It is not ruled out that bodies may be found washed up by the sea “in Ibiza or Tarragona.”

Now, “a scenario of a massive increase in fatalities is no longer contemplated” after cases such as that of the parking lot of the Bonaire Shopping Center.

In fact, the forensic team enabled last week has been reduced by half and has gone from sixty to thirty personnel. The reinforcement professionals arriving from various points in Spain have returned to their destinations and this Tuesday those from the province of Valencia are already operating in a kind of “return to normality”, with the exception that ordinary consultations have been suspended.

The 89 active cases of disappearances reported must be compared to the number of deceased people on whom autopsies have already been performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) of Valencia but they are pending to be identified, which amounts to 62.

As reported this Tuesday ABCinvestigators estimated that there could be less than two hundred disappearances left to clarify.

According to the latest report from the CID, closed at eight in the afternoon this Tuesday, the forensics have carried out throughout this episode 195 autopsies of deceased in DANAthe same ones who have entered the morgue of the City of Justice in Valencia.

Of that total, 133 are fully identified. Of these identifications, 119 have been achieved by fingerprint analysis and the remaining 14 by matching DNA samples.

The information that family members can provide of missing persons in the ante-mortem offices to facilitate identification range from photographs, personal and atropometric reviews, medical histories, x-rays or clothing to personal effects, tattoos, dental records, surgical operations performed, use of internal prostheses or pacemakers, among others.

For identification by genetic profilethe greatest reliability lies in the biological samples of ascending relatives and direct descendants, as well as the delivery of personal effects belonging to the missing person such as a toothbrush or a razor blade.

The ante mortem offices They are located in the case of the Civil Guard at the Patraix Command, at 4 Calamocha Street, and in the case of the National Police at the Higher Police Headquarters, at 42 Gran Vía Ramón y Cajal. Both in the city from Valencia.

In addition, they have been installed mobile offices to collect data and complaints from relatives of missing persons, and therefore prevent them from having to travel to Valencia, in the towns of Albal (Civil Guard Post, Tabacalera street), Alfafar (Municipal Social Welfare Building, La Taleta street , 38) and Algemesí (Local Police checkpoint, Calle Sant Nicolau de Bari, 56). Its uninterrupted hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The CID is the sole authority to publicly provide official figures to the media, through the Communication Office of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, relating to the forensic medical and scientific police treatment of the event.

The tasks of the rescue teams They now focus on points such as the mouths of ravines and rivers, beaches or the lake of La Albufera. The forensic experts consulted predict difficulties in finding these victims: “What will cost the most will be the uprisings.”