The small Valencian municipality of Sot de Chera mourns the death of a four-year-old boy due to the collapse of a building next to the Sot River due to DANA, while his father is still missing, according to the mayor of the town, Tomás Cervera.
The boy was trying to see from a window what the situation was outside his house when a flood of water arrived and part of the structure of the house collapsed and fell into the water, after which The farm collapsed and buried the fatherthe mayor has indicated.
He The child’s body was recovered from the rubble and transferred to the municipality’s church until the uprising was carried out, while the search continues for his father, who they fear may have also died.
The town, in which about 300 inhabitants residelived on Tuesday night two large avenues of waterdue to the torrential rains and the overflow of the nearby Busot reservoir dam, and has preventively relocated some 12 or 13 people from the lower part to the upper part of the town.
The mayor has admitted that one of the concerns they have at the moment is the Buseo reservoir statuslocated seven kilometers upstream from the municipality, a infrastructure that “was neglected for many years and presents structural deficiencies”.
He has also stated that the Generalitat Emergencies have guaranteed them that the dam is not going to collapse and they are monitoring it day and night.
“The town as we knew it does not exist; We are a town that lives off tourism and our axis is the Sot River, a tributary of the Turia River, with infrastructure that has disappeared. “from an old mill to a lot of houses and vehicles,” said Cervera, who added that they are going to have to “reinvent themselves as a town.”
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