The situation in the Valencian Communitysix days after the DANA devastated entire towns, continues to be dramatic. The death toll is 211 people in totala number that increases gradually given that the work of the rescue, debris removal and cleaning teams takes place mainly on the surface. We must add to them another four in Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusiacommunities also affected by the storm, although to a lesser extent.
The search for missing people has intensified in recent hours: there is no official list and the central government admits that the tracking of channels and underground could have an unwanted outcome. However, within the prevailing chaos there is room for good news, since the first explorations of the firefighters in the parking lots from the Bonaire and MN4 shopping centerstwo of the largest in the region, which were completely flooded, concluded without the discovery of fatalities.
The first has 5,700 parking spaces, although the mayor of Aldaia, Guillermo Luján, confirmed that it was “practically empty.” The other area can accommodate 1,600 vehicles and the divers have already entered this Monday with wading suits after a weekend of inspections with drones and thermal cameras. The Civil Guardfor its part, found the body of a person in a ditch in Catarroja that it would have been washed away by the water; Two days before, he found three other bodies stranded on the beaches of Sueca and Pinedo.
On the ground they deal with disaster 7,800 troops of the Military Emergency Unit (UME)of the three Armies and the Royal Guard, deployed in the 69 municipalities that have suffered the ravages of the storm. Along with them, 5,000 soldiers from their centers to provide logistical support and another 104 infantrymen aboard the amphibious assault ship (BAA) of the Galicia Navy, which docked this Monday morning at the Port of Valencia with trucks with food, water , support material and two SH-60F helicopters.
111 people identified
The general head of the EMU Javier Marcos confirmed in an appearance that the morgue arranged at Feria Valencia has expanded its capacity to accommodate 400 deceased. “They are not in normal conditions” – most are drowned – “they need a decent space, decent attention,” he asserted.
Furthermore, the deceased people of Valencia that have already been fully identified by forensic experts and specialists from the Civil Guard and the National Police They already amounted to 111according to the latest updated balance of the Data Integration Center (CID) established to deal with this emergency in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 32/2009. The Courts of the judicial districts of Torrent, Catarroja, Alzira, Valencia, Mislata and Requena have authorized the delivery to families of 47 bodies and it has already been done with at least 35.
Since last Wednesday, the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia has carried out 190 autopsies on corpsesall those who have entered the City of Justice of Valencia and who have therefore been subsequently referred to the morgue set up in Fira Valencia. While the issuance of positive identification reports has accelerated considerably since the previous update, the entry of deceased persons and the consequent practice of autopsies in forensic offices has slowed down. Thus, almost all positive identifications have been produced by the fingerprint comparisonwhile seven of them have been achieved with the analyzes of DNA.
Regarding material damage, the Insurance Compensation Consortium has received in five days 46,000 compensation requestsof which more than 18,000, equivalent to 40%, are already in processing; The experts have contacted those affected to proceed with compensation, and half correspond to damage to vehicles. Some 100,000 have been abandoned on the roads and have begun to be removed by cranes and scrapyards.
The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, for its part, highlighted that it continues working on national network roads such as the A-7, where an attempt is made to temporarily divert traffic, and on the high speedespecially in the Torrent and Chiva tunnels.
On the other hand, approximately 72% of landline and mobile telephone customers have recovered serviceor since the beginning of the breakdowns and the company Iberdrola has recovered the 98% of the electricity supply of those affected in the province of Valencia, where there are still 1,500 customers without service. Finally, the State Security Forces and Corps have detained so far 145 people for robberies, looting and looting taking advantage of the dramatic situation. The last ones, this Monday, when five people tried to steal a container with 200 tires. One of those arrested was wanted and captured.
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