Spain's deadly floods prompt government to send 10,000 soldiers, police

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Over 200 dormant aft floods successful Spain

Over 200 dormant aft floods successful Spain, hunt for bodies continues 01:56

Spain is sending 5,000 much soldiers and 5,000 much constabulary to nan eastbound region of Valencia aft deadly floods this week that killed much than 200 people, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Saturday.

So far, 205 bodies person been recovered — 202 successful Valencia, 2 successful neighboring Castilla La Mancha and 1 successful Andalusia, successful nan southbound — successful Spain's deadliest earthy disaster successful surviving memory.

Rescuers were still searching for bodies successful stranded cars and sodden buildings connected Saturday, 4 days aft nan monstrous flash floods that swept distant everything successful their way successful nan eastbound of Spain. An chartless number of group stay missing.

Thousands of volunteers are helping to cleanable up nan heavy mud that is covering everything successful streets, houses and businesses successful nan hardest-hit towns.

At present, location are immoderate 2,000 soldiers progressive successful nan emergency work, arsenic good arsenic almost 2,500 Civil Guard gendarmes — who person carried retired 4,500 rescues during nan floods — and 1,800 nationalist constabulary officers.

Spain has suffered done an almost two-year drought, making nan flooding worse because nan barren crushed was truthful difficult that it could not sorb nan rain. In August 1996, a flood swept distant a campsite on nan Gallego stream successful Biescas, successful nan northeast, sidesplitting 87 people.

Before-and-after satellite images of nan metropolis of Valencia illustrated nan standard of nan catastrophe, showing nan translator of nan Mediterranean metropolis into a scenery inundated pinch muddy waters. The V-33 road was wholly covered successful nan brownish of a heavy furniture of mud.

"The business is unbelievable. It's a disaster and location is very small help," said Emilio Cuartero, a resident of Masanasa, connected nan outskirts of Valencia. "We request machinery, cranes, truthful that nan sites tin beryllium accessed. We request a batch of help, and breadstuff and water."