Currently there are at least thirteen deaths and seven people unaccounted for due to the floods generated in Valencia by DANA, advances EFE.
In Paiporta four have been found lifeless bodies; in Torrent, five, and in Chiva, Cheste, Alfafar and Alcudia one in each case.
A new alert this morning from the Es-Alert population warning system, through mobile phones, asks to avoid any type of road travel in the province of Valencia as preventive measure in the face of heavy rain.
emergency services They are looking for the seven people that are missing due to the strong floods caused by DANA. Specifically, six people are wanted in Letur (Albacete) and another in L’Alcúdia (Valencia), as reported by the emergency services.
Around 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, the Emergency Services of 112 of Castilla-La Mancha had already announced that they were looking for at least two people, municipal employees, although they anticipated the possibility that there were more missing.
Likewise, they reported that the teams of firefighters displaced to the scene of the events had rescued four individuals. A large emergency contingent is deployed in the Albacete municipality with the presence of firefighters from the Hellín and Los Molinicos parks, Civil Protection, Civil Guard teams, a reconnaissance and rescue helicopter, as well as the Red Cross, among others. .
In this community, the Government of Spain has activated the Military Emergency Unit (UME) at the request of the Generalitat to address the situation caused by DANA in the Utiel area. In addition, the Magro River, for which a special hydrological alert notice has been issued due to the increase in its flow, has begun to overflow near the municipalities of Carlet and Algemesí (Valencia).
For this reason, the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat has established the emergency level due to the storm in special plan situation 2 of flooding throughout the province of Valencia, according to the latest update.
The president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has urged the population not to go out on the road, especially in the province of Valencia, to stay at home and look for high points if they are around ravines or river channels: “The night is going to be long,” said the head of the Consell at the Emergency Coordination Center, who stressed that “there is no confirmation of human losses,” he says. Europa Press.
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