BARCELONA, Spain — At least 52 people died in Spain's Valencia region after flash floods swept away cars, turned village streets into rivers, and disrupted rail lines and highways in the worst natural disaster to hit the South European nation in recent memory.
BARCELONA, Spain — At least 52 people died in Spain 's Valencia region after flash floods swept away cars, turned village streets into rivers, and disrupted rail lines and highways in the worst natural disaster to hit the South European nation in recent memory.Emergency services in the eastern region confirmed the death toll on Wednesday.Rainstorms on Tuesday caused flooding in a wide swath of southern and eastern Spain .
Emergency services personnel carry the body of a person who had been trapped by floods in Letur village, Albacete province, southeastern Spain, on Oct. 29, 2024. Authorities reported several missing people on Tuesday night, but the following morning brought the shocking announcement of dozens found dead.Over 1,000 soldiers from Spain's emergency response units were deployed to the devastated areas.'Yesterday was the worst day of my life,' Ricardo Gabaldón, the mayor of Utiel, a town in Valencia, told national broadcaster RTVE. He said several people were still missing in his town.'We were trapped like rats.
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