Deadly victim 222 by DANA in Valencia found submerged in Vilamarxant

The lifeless body was submerged in the water and they intervened divers of the Armed Institute, in a tracking and search device in the area in which the Specialist Group in Underwater Activities (GEAS), the Reserve and Security Group (GRS), those in the mountains and those that operate with canine guides also work, among other units.

This fatality is not counted in the last balance since the beginning of the catastrophe prepared by the Data Integration Center (CID) and which has been updated at 8 p.m. this Monday, November 25, with the figure of five missing, also from Sunday.

A total of 221 people who perished in the floods are fully identified and with the autopsy performed. The other parameter that has changed is the delivery of the deceased to their relatives, with one more compared to this Sunday, which brings the total number of families to 220, out of a total of 222, who have already been able to take care of the mortal remains of their loved ones.

He C.I.D. is a technical body that is made up of a Forensic Office and an Office of the State Security Forces and Corps, with specialized agents from the Civil Guard and the National Police, and its main function is to gather and supervise the different identification reports that carried out by the different institutions for people who died in events with multiple victims, by virtue of RD 32/2009.

This center is the only one authorized by this Royal Decree 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 search work for the remaining missing persons, of whom a complaint has been filed, continues in the areas affected by DANA.