The facilities of the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) of the City of Justice of Valencia have registered the entry of 214 fatalities because of the DANA and the floods in the province of Valencia since this episode occurred, on October 29, 2024. For its part, the number of missing people has dropped to 41.
This is reflected in the balance sheet with the accumulated history of the Data Integration Center (CID) closed at 8 p.m. this Saturday, November 9, 2024. Of this total of deceased people, an autopsy has been performed on all of them and 195 They are fully identified (157 by fingerprints, 35 by DNA and 3 by hospital identification while alive). Meanwhile, 19 bodies remain unidentified.
The ante mortem offices enabled by the National Police and the Civil Guard In collaboration with forensic doctors, they currently have 41 active files for disappearance reports, which implies a decrease of nine cases compared to the balance of the previous day, due to the increase in identifications among the deceased and locations of living people.
As indicated by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) in a statement, both parameters, active disappearances and the total number of fatalities, are different, so “they should not be added in any case.”
In this way, the High Court has specified that the active disappearance files “can increase or decrease depending on the new identifications that may occur among the existing deceased, 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 loved ones.
In this way, compared to the balance closed 24 hours earlier, that is, this Friday, November 8, there are two new fatalities recorded, 12 new identifications of deceased peoplethree more autopsies and nine fewer active missing persons files.
On the other hand, the morgue enabled at Fira Valenciawhere all the bodies are taken from the City of Justice once the autopsy has been carried out, they have already carried out until 8 p.m. this Friday the effective delivery of 140 of the mortal remains of those deceased people already identified to their families so that they can carry out the funeral obsequies, 12 more than the total number registered until this Friday.
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