Although the number of deaths caused by DANA in the province of Valencia has not been updated, the statistic remains at 211 (219 in all of Spain if the seven fatalities registered in Castella-La Mancha and the deceased in Malaga are added), yes that the number of missing people has been updated. The offices ante mortem enabled by the National Police and the Civil Guard, in collaboration with forensic doctors, have recorded 93 active cases of disappearance reports at 8 p.m. this Wednesday, four more than yesterday, Tuesday, when there were 89. The Superior Court of Justice of the Comunitat Valenciana (TSJCV) has clarified that the data on active disappearances and the total number of fatalities “are different, so they should not be added in any case.”
In this sense, he pointed out that active disappearance files “may increase or decrease depending on the new identifications of existing deceased persons, the increase in disappearance reports or the location of living people.”
The files ante mortem of missing persons that are active correspond exclusively to complaints where relatives have provided different information and provided biological samples along with the complaints in the offices ante mortem that allow the subsequent identification of your loved ones.
199 autopsies performed
For its part, the morgue of the City of Justice of Valencia has received since the DANA occurred, and until 8 p.m. this Wednesday, a total of 199 fatalities, all of them with autopsies already performed, who have been referred to Fira València (84 of those victims have already been handed over to their families for funeral obsequies). Of the total of these people, 145 are fully identified (127 by fingerprints and another 18 by DNA); while 54 people remain unidentified, according to the latest update of figures by the Data Integration Center (CID).
The offices ante mortem They are located, in the case of the Civil Guard, in the Patraix Command, at 4 Calamocha Street; and in the case of the National Police at the Higher Police Headquarters, at Gran Vía Ramón y Cajal, 42. Both in the city of València. Mobile offices have also been installed to collect data and complaints from relatives of missing persons, and therefore prevent them from having to travel to Valencia, in the towns of Albal (Civil Guard Post, Tabacalera Street), Alfafar (Municipal Building of Social Welfare, Calle La Taleta, 38) and Algemesí (Local Police checkpoint, Calle Sant Nicolau de Bari, 56). Its uninterrupted hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Forensic and police specialists in the identification of fatal victims repeatedly insist on the need for relatives of people missing in a tragedy like the one that occurred in Valencia to go to these offices. ante mortem to report and provide both biological samples and any information that allows the identification of your loved one in the event that he or she has died.
In the areas affected by DANA, 20,000 troops remain working on the ground, including soldiers, firefighters, National Police officers, Civil Guard and local police and members of civil protection in cleaning the devastated areas and searching for the mortal remains of the victims, mainly in the mouths of the Túria, in the channels of the Magro river and the Poyo ravine and in l’Albufera, as well as in the Riba-roja and l’Origuilla industrial estates.
83 burial licenses issued
The courts of Torrent, Catarroja, Alzira, Valencia, Mislata, Llíria and Requena, the most affected by Dana, have issued, until this Wednesday at 3 p.m., 83 burial or cremation licenses to the funeral homes, which are in charge of collect the mortal remains at the morgue located in Fira Valencia.
Thus, in the Torrent Courts, which make up the municipalities of Alaquàs, Aldaia, Paiporta, Picanya and Torrent itself, 43 burial licenses have already been granted; In the judicial district of Catarroja, corresponding to the towns of Albal, Alfafar, Benetúser, Catarroja, Llocnou de la Corona, Masanasa and Sedaví, there are 19 licenses issued to family members; In the judicial district of Alzira, five licenses have been processed; four in Valencia; three in Mislata; seven in Requena; and in Llíria, two.
At the judicial headquarters of the territories involved, appearances continue to be made with the relatives of the deceased who have already had an autopsy performed and have a positive identification report from the Institute of Legal Medicine, IML, and the Civil Guard or National Police. .
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