(31 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Valencia, Spain – 31 October 2024
1. Various of vehicles swept away by floodwater on motorway
2. Men cleaning
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Sanchez, welder:
"I was here from the 20:30 (19:30GMT) until 06:00 (0500 GMT). The firefighters took the elderly first, when they could get in. I am from nearby so I tried to help and rescue people, people were crying all over, they were trapped."
4. Various of destroyed cars
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Sanchez, welder:
"Yes, I saw bodies floating past, I called out but nothing."
6. Destroyed cars
7. Helicopter flying overhead
8. Various of vehicles
9. Lorry driver from Czech republic Otakar Libes standing in front of his vehicle
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Otakar Libes, lorry driver:
"The current (took) the cars, swimming. It was a grand apocalypse."
11. Various of destroyed vehicles
12. Woman putting water and supplies into trolley
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandra Mina, singer:
"We are collecting food, water, everything we can find because it is going to rot anyway and the elderly can’t get here. And there are people who are hungry, we don’t have water, we don’t have electricity."
14. Various of cars in flooded supermarket parking
15. People leaving with food from supermarket
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nieves Vargas Cortes, council worker:
"We are not thieves, I work as a cleaner at the school for the council. But we have to eat, look what I picked up, baby food for the baby. It’s wet, so I don’t know if I can use it. What can I give to the child, if we don’t have electricity?"
17. Debris in canal
18. Civil Guard on patrol, man shouting at them
19. SOUNDBITE (English) James Turley, shop assistant:
"All the shops, everything is in a massive disaster. We are not even going to be able to start repairing. I can’t even contact my work, no one in this area can contact each other because we have no internet. Every place that we think has got solar panels, because of where the adapters and everything are, are completely destroyed. The solar doesn’t even work. We can’t even charge anything. And loads of people have gone into Valencia to try and seek more shelter, but there are about more 150,000 people in this place."
20. Various of cars
21. Child’s boot in mud
STORYLINE:
Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain this century were stunned by scenes of devastation on Thursday, after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods that killed at least 95 people.
"The current took the cars, swimming. It was a grand apocalypse," said Otakar Libes, a 53-year-old lorry driver from Czech republic who witnessed the disaster.
"We are collecting food, water, everything we can find because it is going to rot anyway and the elderly can’t get here. And there are people who are hungry, we don’t have water, we don’t have electricity," Alejandra Mina, another survivor from Valencia, said.
Cars piled on one another like broken toys, while uprooted trees, downed power lines and household items all mired in a layer of mud, covered the streets.
Walls of rushing water turned narrow streets into death traps and spawned rivers that ripped into the ground floors of homes and swept away cars, people and anything else in its path.
The floods knocked down bridges and left roads unrecognisable.
The death toll is expected to rise as search efforts continue with officials removing bodies from buildings and vehicles and an unknown number of people still missing.
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