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Two victims of the floods in Paiporta, Valencia
The body identified this week was found during rubble removal work next to the Túria River.
The body of one of the people missing in floods in Valencia (Spain) on October 29 last year, was found and identified this weeklocal authorities said.
The body was identified using DNA analysis, which confirmed that it was a man who disappeared during the floods almost a year ago, the Valencia court said in a statement.
The body identified this week was found on Tuesday afternoon by employees of the public company Tragsa during rubble removal work next to the Túria river.
In the floods of October 29, 2024 229 people died in the Valencia region, the same court confirmed.
The identification of this body does not change the number of victims, since all the people missing that day had already been reported dead by the authorities, he explained.
There is now two corpses to be found and identified.
The storm that caused this scenario was DANA, a Spanish acronym for “Isolated Depression at High Levels. In the Spanish city, in a place where it didn’t even rain.
Among the “miracles”, a woman was trapped in a car for three days.
Months later, a judge in Catarroja considered that no one had been able to prevent the material damage. But many deaths could have been.
Local government institutions, the Valencian Generalitat, are being targeted. Apparently, the Justice and Interior advisor, Salomé Pradas, refused to send the alert via SMS as soon as she received the recommendation from the technicians; He preferred to wait for the arrival of Carlos Mazón, president of the Generalitat – who arrived in the early evening (he had spent the afternoon in a restaurant). The counselor was pressured to make decisions immediately, but postponed it several times.
