(1 Nov 2024)
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Massanassa, Valencia – 31 October 2024
1. Various of wrecked vehicles following floods
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Ariño, local resident:
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“There were rivers that took the cars and pushed them one against another, they broke into houses. This was completely unimaginable, not even in the terror movies have I seen something similar to what we saw here the other night. What people need is food, because we understand that all the material losses are not important next to saving our lives, when we look at other people that have lost their lives. We still don’t know how neighbors and acquaintances have been lost. We need drinkable water.”
3. Various of cars spread on railway tracks
4. Various of emergency crew
5. Mid of destruction
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Gomez, local resident:
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“If we had stayed 15 minutes longer in the car park we wouldn’t be here to tell the story. They made us cross the car park to go to the second floor. The water was up to our (hips), water was entering in from all sides. We were able to get to the second floor of Mercadona of Massanassa because this was chaos, and it continues to be chaos.”
7. People hugging with damaged vehicles in background
8. People cleaning debris
9. Tracking shot of destruction
STORYLINE:
Residents of Massanassa in the Valencia region of Spain have spoken of their devastation after floods hit the region killing at least 158 people.
Crews searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings Thursday as residents salvaged what they could from their ruined homes following monstrous flash flooding.
Eleven of the 158 people killed were in Massanassa.
More horrors emerged Thursday from the debris and ubiquitous layers of mud left by the walls of water that produced Spain’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.
The damage recalled the aftermath of a tsunami, with survivors left to pick up the pieces as they mourn their loved ones.
Cars were piled on one another like fallen dominoes, uprooted trees, downed power lines and household items all mired in mud that covered streets in dozens of communities in Valencia, a region south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast.
An unknown number of people are still missing and more victims could be found.
AP Video shot by Alicia Leon Perea
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