The trickle of deaths continues, adding to the macabre statistics of fatalities caused by DANA that devastated the province of Valencia a week ago today. The latest official figure is 216 people killed in this tragedy throughout Spain, most of them in Valencia (211 according to the latest updated data), as confirmed on Monday by the Minister of Public Administration, Ángel Víctor Torres, after the meeting of the Cecopi (Integrated Operational Coordination Center).
The offices before death enabled by the National Police and the Civil Guard in collaboration with forensic doctors, at 8 p.m. this Tuesday there were 89 cases of active missing persons due to the damage and subsequent floods that affected the province of Valencia on October 29, according to the figures from the Data Integration Center (CID).
These active cases correspond exclusively to complaints where relatives have provided different data and provided biological samples that allow the subsequent identification of their relatives, the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) has reported.
Furthermore, these 89 active cases of reported disappearances must be put in relation to the number of deceased people on whom an autopsy has already been performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) but are pending identification, which amounts to 62. For this reason, the number of missing people does not have to correspond entirely to new deaths.
According to the latest report from the CID, closed at 8 p.m. this Tuesday, the forensic experts have carried out 195 autopsies on the deceased in the dana throughout this episode, the same ones that have been admitted to the morgue of the City of Justice in Valencia.
Of that total, 133 are fully identified. Of these identifications, 119 have been achieved by fingerprint analysis and the remaining 14 by matching DNA samples.
The search continues in rivers, the Albufera and underground
The statistics have been increasing little by little in recent days because, as the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, explained in her appearance on Monday, the surface search has ended and the inspection tasks in the channels are currently being carried out (the Magro River, the Poyo ravine, l’Albufera) and underground.
Regarding the tasks carried out in the affected areas, in the regions of Ribera Alta and Ribera Baja, work continues on the removal of belongings and, shortly, a return to normality is foreseeable. While in the Requena-Utiel area, the works to restore infrastructure and cleaning are being completed.
As for L’Horta Sud, the search for possible victims is still underway, for which drones are also being used, especially in the area of the Magro River and Rambla del Poyo. This search is complemented by canine tracking units.
Currently, more than 1,700 firefighters from 42 agencies and 7,800 military personnel are deployed on the ground. In the field of citizen security, there are currently a total of 6,000 members of the National Police and the Civil Guard, more than 400 members of the different local police forces and more than a hundred agents of the Generalitat Police.
Help for those affected
The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, demands from the central government aid of 31.4 billion euros for the areas affected by the cold drop. On Monday, the head of the Consell requested a supplement to aid for cleaning homes and purchasing vehicles, a supplement to the Valencian inclusion income and a package to rebuild infrastructure and industrial areas. The Generalitat Valenciana will invest another 250 million euros in the reconstruction of the affected areas.
For his part, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Tuesday a 10.6 billion plan with aid of up to 60,000 euros for each home affected by the storm and explained that the Council of Ministers has approved a Decree Law “of urgency in the “that all economic, labor and fiscal aid is compiled” for those affected by the environmental catastrophe.
4,100 hectares affected
The Copernicus satellite service, activated by the European Commission at the request of Spain to evaluate the impact of DANA in the Valencian Community, has revealed more than 4,100 hectares of surface and 3,906 buildings affected by floods in the Valencian area of l’Horta Sud .
The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS), activated at 2:30 p.m. in Spain on October 29, has today communicated the data provided by its visualizations of this region, in which it estimates that there are more of 60,000 people impacted, 15.2 km of railways and 531.6 kilometers of roads.
These data refer to a display from October 31 at 10:22 a.m. in Spain.
Mazón’s appearance in the Cortes
The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, will appear in the Valencian Courts on Thursday, November 14 to give public explanations of the management of the DANA that has devastated part of the province of Valencia. This was agreed this Tuesday by the Board of Ombudsmen, after having received a letter from the president in which he requests to appear before the plenary session of the autonomous Parliament to account for the damage, and the requests for appearance presented by the parliamentary groups.
Source: www.eldiario.es
