The Cecopi (Integrated Operational Coordination Center) confirmed this Monday that the official number of people who died due to the storm alone in the province of València has now reached 211 (to which should be added the three who died in Castilla-La Mancha and another in the province of Malaga).
The figure has remained virtually unchanged in recent days which, taking into account the magnitude of the devastation, has raised all kinds of suspicions, if not conspiracy theories and hoaxes, about the management of the data offered by official bodies.
Sources from the Ministry of the Interior have explained to elDiario.es that the procedure followed when the security forces and bodies locate a body is to contact the court to have it removed: “Subsequently, it is sent to the institute of forensic medicine where the forensic experts They perform an autopsy to certify the cause of death. Subsequently, identification is carried out.”
Throughout this process, the victim is added to the registry of deceased “once the body is removed” so if the numbers remain stable it is because no new bodies have been removed.
This also has an explanation. As the Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, and the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, commented this Monday after the Cecopi meeting, the troops are currently focused on “the entrance to the channels and underground” of the areas. affected by DANA in the province of Valencia, while “no more victims have been detected on the surface.”
“Now we are in the next phase of entering the channels, the ravines, the subways, the garages, in which the entire Army and fire department is working intensely, precisely to reduce them, and that is where possibly can change the pace of the number of victims,” said Bernabé.
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