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"Hundreds of civil and military emergency workers are searching shopping
centres, garages and underground car parks for more victims of floods in the
Valencia region that have killed at least 214 people, as public anger mounts
over Spanish authorities’ handling of the disaster.
Yellow and amber weather warnings were in place for parts of Valencia and
neighbouring Catalonia on Monday, with people in the affected areas advised to
stay off the roads and keep away from the coast and rivers.
Heavy rain pounded the Barcelona area on Monday morning, leading the regional
government to issue civil protection alerts and cancel all local train
services. More than 50 flights due to take off from El Prat airport were
cancelled or severely delayed.
Over the weekend, personnel from the armed forces’ military emergencies unit
(UME) focused their efforts on shopping malls and car parks where people could
have been trapped by the floods, which were caused by torrential rains that
experts have linked to the climate emergency.
On Sunday, UME workers managed to enter the underground car park of the huge
Bonaire shopping complex in the Valencian town of Aldaia. Using a small boat
and flashlights, police searched the lot’s 1,800 parking spaces, telling
reporters that so far about 50 vehicles had been found and no bodies had been
discovered."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
