(30 Oct 2024)
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Utiel, Valencia, Spain – 30 October 2024
1. Car and properties damaged by flooding
2. People walking in the mud
3. River and debris
4. Close of damaged car
5. Man clearing mud from street
6. River
7. Damaged shop
8. Two people hugging
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Berenguer, 63-year-old bakery owner:
"I have the bakery here on the same corner and with two and a half metres of water, I had to get out of a window as best I could because the water was already coming up to my shoulders and I took refuge on the first floor with the neighbours and I stayed there all night, keeping an eye out."
10. Bakery
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Berenguer, 63-year-old bakery owner:
"It has taken everything, everything about 300 to 400 cars. These garages are all flooded with more than 100 cars, I have to throw everything out of the bakery, freezers, ovens, everything."
12. Damaged furniture and other debris in muddy street
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Carmen Martinez Ramires, 67-year-old pensioner:
"Terrible, terrible. There was a man there clinging to a fence who was falling and calling people, help… and they couldn’t help him until the helicopters came and took him away, so it was very bad. It was very bad."
14. Ramires and another woman walking in mud
15. Various of river and damaged cars that were washed away
16. Set up of local builder Jose Enrique Ferrer
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Enrique Ferrer, 52-year-old builder:
"We had a lot of things downstairs: bicycles, the motorbike, a kitchen, everything you can see down there. I’m thankful that water didn’t get to the first floor, which is where the house is. We took the things up to the first floor and waited and prayed that it wouldn’t go up any more with a lot of distress."
18. Ferrer on top of a partially broken bridge
19. Various of crane removing car
20. Various of furniture in street
21. Wide of river with cars in it
22. Various of UME (emergency army unit) vehicles on scene
STORYLINE:
Flash floods in eastern Spain swept away cars, turned village streets into rivers, disrupted rail lines and highways and killed at least 72 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory.
Emergency services in the eastern region of Valencia confirmed a death toll of 70 people on Wednesday.
Residents of the town of Utiel in the Valencia region were still assessing the damage on Wednesday as cars, furniture and other debris lay strewn around the muddy streets.
Some said they’d had a lucky escape from the raging floodwaters.
"I have the bakery here on the same corner and with two and a half metres of water, I had to get out of a window as best I could because the water was already coming up to my shoulders," said 63-year-old Javier Berenguer.
"I took refuge on the first floor with the neighbours and I stayed there all night, keeping an eye out," he added.
Berenguer said everything in his bakery had been damaged beyond repair.
Rainstorms that started Tuesday and continued Wednesday caused flooding in a wide swath of southern and eastern Spain, stretching from Malaga to Valencia.
Muddy torrents tumbled vehicles down streets at high speeds, while pieces of wood swirled in the water alongside household items. Police and rescue services used helicopters to lift people from their homes and rubber boats to reach drivers stranded on the roofs of cars.
AP video by Alicia Leon Perea
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