Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Spain was carrying out its biggest army deployment in peacetime after catastrophic flash floods killed more than 200 people in the country’s east. Dozens more remain missing.CatastropheSpain
Spain sends 10,000 more troops, police to flood-hit Valencia
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Spain was carrying out its biggest army deployment in peacetime after catastrophic flash floods killed more than 200 people in the country’s east. Dozens more remain missing.
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Members of the military work to clear mud and debris in the town of Catarroja, in the region of Valencia
The floods left the streets and houses of Valencia’s towns coated in mud.
Spain’s government said it would send 5,000 more soldiers and 5,000 more police to the eastern region of Valencia to help with search and cleanup efforts following flash floods that have killed at least 211 people.
“It is the biggest operation by the Armed Forces in Spain in peacetime,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in a televised statement on Saturday. “The government is going to mobilize all the resources necessary as long as they are needed.”
Torrential rain swept across Spain’s east on Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning, triggering the country’s deadliest flood event in modern history. Many people were caught unawares and were swept away in their cars or trapped in houses.
Four days on, dozens of people are still believed to be missing.
