Covered in dried mud, the armchair in which Florin Costel Besnea watched television is more than a kilometer from his house on the shoulder of one of the roads that runs through the Albufera in Valencia. The night of the flood caused by DANA, Tuesday, October 29, the waterspout that came down like a tsunami from the Poyo ravine crashed into the house where he lived with his wife, Axinia Sandu. Both, 57 years old, have been missing since then and their daughters, Alice Andreea Manea and Petruta Sandu, have been desperately searching for them for ten days. A member of the UME carries out searches for the missing in the Albufera Álvaro Ybarra Zavala national park«My Parents called me at 10:06 at night to tell me that the water and the wind were taking them away. His last call, 56 seconds long, was at 10:26. They told me that the water was dragging them and that they couldn’t take it anymore,” their eldest daughter, Alice, tells us, in front of the remains of the demolished garage that her father had built next to the house. Behind him, and tipped over on its right side, the white Renault van with which his father earned a living collecting wooden pallets fell into an adjacent rice field. «Daughter, call 112, we won’t get out of this! “The water has entered our house up to eight feet and we are tied to the roof of the van!” they begged Alice at the end of those twenty minutes, which had to be terrifying. Alice Andreea Sandu shows from her cell phone a photograph of his parents who have disappeared as a result of the Dana flood in Valencia Álvaro Ybarra ZavalaThe family arrived in Spain twenty years ago in search of a better future and found it. In addition to his work and that of his daughters, this is attested to by the other car the family had, a Ford Focus planted in the middle of another rice field 200 meters away. Around them, muddy and scattered like the remains of a shipwreck, the couple’s clothes and belongings have appeared, but no trace of them. “With my husband, Cristian Avram, and my brother-in-law, Marcel Petrisor Manea, we have been searching in water up to our necks and we found in the canal next to the house Dad’s pajamas and Mom’s blouse, which they were wearing that night,” The other daughter, Petruta Sandu, shows us both clothes.Petruta Sandu (center) and her sister Alice Andreea Sandu (left) cry in anguish while the UME operation carries out searches for their parents who disappeared due to the Dana flood in the Albufera Álvaro Ybarra Zavala national park «What I wonder is that, when I called 112 at two or so in the morning, they told me: ‘Be calm, someone will go to your house.’ I gave them the address many times and someone who answered me again asked me: ‘Are they two older men on top of a van?’ And I said, ‘Yes, yes, they are my parents!’ Since that night, I don’t understand that, if my parents have been seen, why no one has arrived until today, when the UME (Army Mobile Emergency Unit) is here looking for them in this area that we have searched,” explains Petruta, trying to contain the crying. But he can’t and eventually collapses. «I don’t even have tears to cry anymore, but I feel bad. Both parents! It just can’t be! Both at the same time! And they have been seen! If someone at 112 tells me that if they are those two elderly people on top of a van, it means they have seen them. They’ve seen them! Why hasn’t anyone gone? », she asks herself, crying while her husband consoles her. A team from the UME carries out searches for the missing with a drone in the Albufera Álvaro Ybarra Zavala national park. Alerted by ABC, which learned about these disappearances on Wednesday afternoon, this Thursday In the morning a team from the UME arrived and is searching for bodies a couple of kilometers away in the Albufera natural park. With dogs, drones and soldiers who go into the rice fields up to their waists to search inch by inch, the device tries to find the bodies of Florin and Aixinia. After asking a neighbor who has a dairy farm and discovered a corpse a few days ago In a ditch, which did not belong to any of them, the UME arrives at the Romanian couple’s house, on the Rabisancho road, with four trucks and a ‘buggy’ (small all-terrain vehicle). In case they have to enter deeper swampy areas, they also carry a ‘wally’ (rigid motor boat) and a kayak. The UME in search of two missing people due to the Dana flood in the National Park of the Albufera Álvaro Ybarra Zavala Coming from León, this detachment arrived in Valencia hours after the catastrophe and a few days ago found the body of a man in Alcudia who died clinging to a tree. Added to the agony of drowning is the shrapnel that, in the form of logs, stones, containers and even cars, is dragged by the force of the water. Getting to work, the UME soldiers dive into the rice field next to the house, where they find Florin’s cell phone. Even twenty meters away, his daughter Alice recognizes it by the case and runs to pick it up. Both she and her sister cry inconsolably as they cling to the phone, the last remnant they have of their parents. «We have no hope. We know that they are not alive because, in addition, my mother had surgery on her leg and was lame. My father must have put her on top of the van. I don’t know how it happened! I don’t know anything! What we know is that they will not be alive,” laments Petruta. The UME in the search for two missing people due to the Dana flood in the Albufera national park Álvaro Ybarra ZavalaBy these twists of fate, their mother had appointment at the hospital the day after that fateful night, which we will never forget in Spain. «We are devastated, without eating, without sleeping and hoping to at least find their bodies. Or, maybe there is some miracle, and someone has welcomed them. We don’t know. I don’t know if there will be any miracle with them,” Petruta reflects out loud, attentive to the search efforts of the UME and also to her one-year-old baby. To breastfeed, she gets into her car while the military continues the search, which was unsuccessful at the end of the day. A kilometer away, on the shoulder of the road, it seems that Florin’s chair is still waiting for him to watch the sunset over the rice fields of Albufera.
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