As the hours have passed, the worst has been confirmed. The count of fatalities left by DANA as it passes through the Valencian Community amounts to at least 51 people. This Tuesday, the town most affected by the storm was in Albacete, Letur, where six people remain missing due to a flood. Later, the storm moved to the east, and early Wednesday morning was tragic in Valencia.
This morning, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has urgently called a meeting of the Crisis Committee to monitor DANA in Moncloa, which will be held this afternoon. Shortly before, the president will make an institutional declaration regarding the catastrophe.
This is all that is known at the moment about DANA and its consequences:
More than fifty dead in Valencia
In the province of Valencia alone, 51 deaths have been recorded due to the floods, a figure that is still provisional. The Valencian Government has offered this first balance through the information received from the different security and emergency bodies and forces.
The process of surveying and identifying the victims is beginning, on a day in which Valencia still dawns with collapsed roads, people pending rescue and innumerable material damage in multiple parts of the province devastated by the passage of the storm. “The image was Dantesque, like a horror movie,” says a resident of Picassent about what he experienced in the last few hours. “I didn’t want to die. I went out of the car window and it went down the ravine,” says Antonio, who was returning yesterday afternoon from work to Paiporta and was trapped by the flood.
In Cullera, 26 people have had to be rescued after the Júcar overflowed in several cases. The security and emergency forces, together with municipal services, continue to rescue more people at this time, which is why they ask the population for “maximum alert and caution”, not to leave their homes and to remove cars from the vicinity of the river.
A woman dead in Cuenca and several missing in Albacete
In the Cuenca municipality of Mira, an 88-year-old woman has died in the floods caused by the overflowing of the Cabriel River. On the other hand, the Civil Guard has continued throughout the night the search for six unlocated people in Letur with drones with night cameras, as a result of the flood that occurred in this Albacete town. As the night search has not been successful, a new device has already been prepared that will be deployed this morning on the ground, made up of about seventy troops, including agents from the Civil Guard, firefighters, Civil Protection and a group from the Army. supported with dogs and a helicopter.
The people not located are two municipal workers, whose vehicle was swept away by the flood that crossed the urban area of the municipality this Tuesday, as well as two other women and a couple with whom they have not yet been able to contact.
Trains between Madrid and Valencia suspended
The storm has caused the suspension of the railway lines that link Madrid with Valencia and in the vicinity of the capital of the Valencian Community itself. The weather conditions have forced Renfe to maintain the suspension of the Valencia Cercanías service on all its lines until further notice. Trains on lines C1 València-Gandia, C2 València-Moixent, C3 València-Utiel and C6 València-Castelló do not run.
As for the affected roads, the main accesses to Valencia are still closed at several points on the A-3 and A-7.
New storms this Wednesday
The damage is not over. This Wednesday, new storms are expected to shake the country again and will predictably aggravate the disaster of floods and river overflows in recent hours due to torrential rains. Although the situation will begin to subside this Wednesday, eight autonomous communities still remain on alert for heavy rains, three of them, Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha and Catalonia, with significant risk, at the orange level, according to the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). ).
The Valencian Community even reached the red level with extreme risk, although today it will reduce the level to yellow. The new rains, which will be less intense, will however continue to increase river flows and complicate the situation, which is already quite delicate in itself. Firefighters and emergency services have reported that they still do not have access to all the points where rescues are needed.
The AEMET is already talking about “the most adverse cold drop of the century” in the Valencian Community.
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