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We are not on red alert, but it is essential to warn the population to avoid greater risks."
After three days we’ve found a person alive in a car."
We are talking about the largest deployment of state security forces and bodies of the armed forces that has ever been made in our country in times of peace."
Addressing the nation, the PM said There are still dozens of people looking for their loved ones and hundreds of households mourning the loss of a relative, a friend or a neighbour,
Sanchez said in an address With a catastrophe still incalculable, the government’s priority is to maintain the plenary session only to control TVE,
Feijóo said on Wednesday, referring to parliamentary discussions to reform the state broadcaster It has so far carried out 4,800 rescues and helped more than 30,000 people in their homes, on the roads, and in flooded industrial estates,
he told reporters in Madrid after chairing a meeting of a flood crisis committee I have seen many things in politics, but nothing so despicable and inhuman,
If we can support the region we will do that of course, the other things the league has to decide,
For me it's a tragedy, we also had this in Germany three years ago, it's also horrible to see this,
he said, referring to flash flooding in Germany's Ahr Valley in July 2021 which killed more than 180 people What is happening is very hard,
he told reporters ahead of his side's game against Las Palmas on Sunday There has been a sense of anger that people have been left abandoned here,
said Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego, reporting from Paiporta, one of the worst-hit areas in the outskirts of Valencia This neighbourhood, which is only half an hour from Valencia’s city centre, remained utterly cut off – no water, no electricity, hardly any telecommunications,
I am aware the response is not enough, there are problems and severe shortages... towns buried by mud, desperate people searching for their relatives,
That is why the Spanish government is today sending 4,000 more personnel from the military emergencies unit to Valencia province,
The situation we’re experiencing is tragic and dramatic,
It is reasonable to think that we will have more deaths."
Speaking to Cadena SER, Grande-Marlaska confirmed It is the biggest operation by the Armed Forces in Spain in peacetime,
I have been going around the town for three days helping everyone who needs it. We have a backpack full of food and water for anyone who needs it."
Rafael Armero, 19, who was in Alfafar, a suburb of Valencia, told Reuters on Saturday We took what we had at home, and now it's time to help. It's emotional, it gives you goosebumps,
There aren't enough firefighters, the shovels haven't arrived,
Paco Clemente, a 33-year-old pharmacist, told AFP as he helped clear mud from a friend's house
