The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, recalled that at this moment the priority is the people missing since last Tuesday DANA in the Valencian Community and Castilla-La Mancha, about which he has not been able to specify how many there are or their data, although he has assured that “there are many».
This Thursday, more than 36 hours after the worst cold spell of the century in the province of Valenciawhich has also affected the province of Albacete and other areas of the Mediterranean coast, the work of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) They will focus this morning on the search for the missing people.
Until now, the administrations have not provided definitive figures of missing people, although emergency sources from the Valencian Community speak to ABC of “dozens”, reports Alberto Caparrós. «We cannot yet specify the data. There are many missing people. “It would be premature,” said the Defense Minister in an interview on Telecinco’s ‘The Critical View’.
Yes, he has confirmed that the UME and the necessary reinforcement from the Army “will dedicate themselves above all, especially this morning, to the search for missing people.” He has detailed that in locations such as Paiporta or Massanassa There may be people in garages and basements, and those are precisely “the priority right now.”
The Minister of Defense has reported that since yesterday 1,205 UME troops and more than 300 vehicles have been deployed, with the occasional support of the Army. According to figures, these soldiers To date they have rescued more than 110 peoplein addition to the bodies of 24 people. «There are 51 special teams, cynological teams, precisely for these debris removal tasks to see if there were any living people. Therefore, at this moment it is not possible to give a number of missing people,” he explained.
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