Valencia opens temporary morgue after flood with more than 200 dead in Spain

Around 500 soldiers have been deployed to search for people still missing and help survivors of the storm, which triggered a new weather warning in Huelva, southwest Spain.

The death toll is likely to continue to rise, with dozens of people still unaccounted for, Angel Victor Torres, the minister responsible for cooperation with Spain’s regions, said at a press conference on Thursday evening.

With around 75,000 homes still without electricity, firefighters were extracting gasoline from cars that had been abandoned in the floods to fill power generators and restore domestic supplies.

“We are going from car to car looking for any gasoline we can find,” said a firefighter who traveled from the southern region of Andalusia to Valencia to help with rescue efforts, carrying a plastic tube and empty bottles to collect gasoline from tanks. of cars.

A year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours on Tuesday night, destroying roads, train tracks and bridges as rivers burst their banks.

*Raul Cadenas, Eva Manez and Ana Cantero also participated