(4 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Valencia, Spain – 4 November 2024
1. Various street scenes of cars piled up, people walking past rubble
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Murgui, daughter of missing person, Francisco Murqui:
++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED++
“Like most people in town, who went down to their garages to get their cars or motorbikes to safety. In his case, it was his motorbike. The flash flood caught him outside, and in the end he had to climb a tree in order to save himself. He called us to tell us that he was fine. That we shouldn’t worry. That he was up a tree and was okay. He held up there until one in the morning. By two in the morning, I went outside with a neighbor using a rope to try to locate him. But we couldn’t find him. And up until now we don’t know anything about him. “We don’t know anything. All we can do is start a legal procedure. File a missing person’s report and give DNA sampling. But we still have not heard anything."
3. Various of woman whose father is still missing looking at news on her smartphone
4. Photo and details of Francisco Murqui, missing since the floods
5. Various of Maria Murgui looking at her phone
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paiporta, Valencia, Spain – 2 November 2024
6. Aerials of flooded square
7. Cars piled up
8. People walking
STORYLINE:
Exact figures on the numbers of missing people after the Valencia floods are hard to come by.
Almost seven days after flash floods came crashing through the suburbs of Valencia, authorities have not released official figures of those still missing.
Among the missing is 27-year-old Maria Murgui’s father, Francisco.
Maria, who was born and grew up in Sedaví, a municipality in the province of Valencia, said when the first wave of the flood hit, her father, a 57 year-old pensioner, went out to get his motorbike to safety.
But the strong current forced him to climb a tree to save himself, and he remained there for several hours.
Francisco phoned his daughter regularly, assuring her he was fine, until one o’ clock in the morning.
An hour later, his daughter went out with a rope to try and find him, but Francisco was missing and has not been heard of since.
Maria says she has filed a missing person’s report and given a DNA sample but that she still hasn’t received information on the whereabouts of her father from the authorities.
Since Tuesday’s deluge, authorities have recovered 217 bodies and continue to search for an unknown number of missing people.
The damage recalled the aftermath of a tsunami, with survivors left to pick up the pieces as they mourn their loved ones.
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