MADRID (ITALPRESS) – The death toll from the wave of bad weather that has hit Spain in recent hours, particularly the autonomous community of Valencia, has risen to at least 158. Rescuers continue to search for the missing among the mud and rubble. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who has declared three days of national mourning, traveled to Valencia where he visited the Emergency Coordination Center along with local community president Carlos Mazon.
More than 120,000 people have been displaced, with at least 500 people staying overnight in hotels in the Valencia region, where more than a thousand military personnel from the army’s Emergency Unit are engaged in clearing the isolated roads of mud.
In a video message sent to Monsignor Luis Javier Arguello Garcia, Metropolitan Archbishop of Valladolid and president of the country’s Bishops’ Conference, Pope Francis expressed “closeness” and “prayers” to all of Spain and, in particular, to the people of Valencia “in this moment of catastrophe,” according to Vatican News.
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Flood in Spain, at least 158 dead
