The reports of missing persons in the DANA of Valencia pending clarification are reduced to less than 200

According to the latest official statistics provided this Monday, November 4 at nine at night, the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia has performed 190 autopsies on the bodies of victims of the worst cold drop of the 21st century. That is, all the bodies that have entered the City of Justice. Forensic experts have managed to identify 111 people while “the entry of deceased persons and the subsequent practice of autopsies has slowed down” in recent days, according to the Data Integration Center (CID) set up to deal with this emergency.

Almost all positive identifications have been produced by the fingerprint comparisonwhile seven of them have been achieved with DNA analysis.

The CID is a technical body It is made up of a Forensic Office and an Office of the State Security Forces and Bodies with specialized agents from the Civil Guard and the National Police, and its main function is to gather and supervise the different identification reports carried out by the different institutions. people killed in events with multiple victims.

All the missing persons reports In the province they are being centralized in the Sapadores National Police station and in the Patraix Civil Guard barracks, both in the city of Valencia. Families residing in other municipalities have been accompanied by agents to complete the procedure.

In the figure of less than two hundred complaints that are being handled, there may still be different cases. For example, that some missing persons are among the 80 bodies still unidentified. It is also likely that some people who have found their relative, alive or dead, will not come forward to withdraw the complaint. Or that the same disappearance of a single person has been alerted by several different relatives.

Therefore, the authorities do not have data “that still responds to reality” of the number of missing people, as explained by the Ministers of Transport and the Interior, Oscar Puente and Fernando Grande-Marlaskarespectively.

To know the exact extent of mortality caused by DANA in Valencia We will have to wait “several weeks”, since the sources consulted by ABC expect that there will be “a trickle” of discovery of bodies. It is not ruled out that bodies may be found washed up by the sea “in Ibiza or Tarragona.”

Now, “a scenario of a massive increase in fatalities is no longer contemplated” after cases such as that of the Bonaire Shopping Center parking.

In fact, the forensic team enabled last week has been reduced by half and has gone from sixty to thirty personnel. The reinforcement professionals arriving from various points in Spain have returned to their destinations and this Tuesday those from the province of Valencia are already operating in a kind of “return to normality”, with the exception that ordinary consultations have been suspended.

The psychologists and social workers mobilized last week to care for missing families have also been demobilized.

In this regard, the Government has a figure “quite low” of disappeared by DANA that still does not give up “prudence”. However, the professionals consulted by ABC They warn that “not all of the missing have been reported.” In these cases, the bodies will be identified through the fingerprints that appear in the National Police databases.

The tasks of the rescue teams They now focus on points such as the mouths of ravines and rivers, beaches or the lake of La Albufera. The forensic experts consulted predict difficulties in finding these victims: “What will cost the most will be the uprisings.”