{"id":121536,"date":"2024-11-03T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121536"},"modified":"2024-11-03T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T02:21:00","slug":"spains-deadly-floods-prompt-government-to-send-10000-soldiers-police-to-valencia-as-death-toll-climbs-to-over-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121536","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s deadly floods prompt government to send 10,000 soldiers, police to Valencia as death toll climbs to over 200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Spain is sending 5,000 more soldiers and 5,000 more police to the eastern region of Valencia after deadly floods this week that killed more than 200 people, Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 205 bodies have been recovered \u2014 202 in Valencia, two in neighboring Castilla La Mancha and one in Andalusia, in the south \u2014 in Spain&#8217;s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Spain Floods \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/11\/02\/c60dba35-be35-4845-9f4b-ef0a1e414fbd\/thumbnail\/620x413\/c76eda963dbaa4176f5308ac300de3f1\/ap24307384103549.jpg?v=379420b9063a2aadbcd559df18e2d1ae 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/11\/02\/c60dba35-be35-4845-9f4b-ef0a1e414fbd\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/da83732f524227ce7d8f50bc00db0d4d\/ap24307384103549.jpg?v=379420b9063a2aadbcd559df18e2d1ae 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">People&#8217;s belongings sit in the mud after floods in Massanassa, just outside of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Alberto Saiz \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rescuers were still searching for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings on Saturday, four days after the monstrous flash floods that swept away everything in their path in the east of Spain. An unknown number of people remain missing.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Thousands of volunteers are helping to clean up the thick mud that is covering everything in streets, houses and businesses in the hardest-hit towns.<\/p>\n<p>At present, there are some 2,000 soldiers involved in the emergency work, as well as almost 2,500 Civil Guard gendarmes \u2014 who have carried out 4,500 rescues during the floods \u2014 and 1,800 national police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has suffered through an almost two-year drought, making the flooding worse because the dry ground was so hard that it could not absorb the rain. In August 1996, a flood swept away a campsite along the Gallego river in Biescas, in the northeast, killing 87 people.<\/p>\n<p>Before-and-after<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/spain-floods-deaths-maps-satellite-images-valencia-impact-resident-anger-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0satellite images<\/a><\/span> of the city of Valencia illustrated the scale of the catastrophe, showing the transformation of the Mediterranean metropolis into a landscape inundated with muddy waters. The V-33 highway was completely covered in the brown of a thick layer of mud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation is unbelievable. It&#8217;s a disaster and there is very little help,&#8221; said <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/spain-floods-deaths-maps-satellite-images-valencia-impact-resident-anger-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Emilio Cuartero, a resident of Masanasa,<\/a><\/span> on the outskirts of Valencia. &#8220;We need machinery, cranes, so that the sites can be accessed. We need a lot of help, and bread and water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Spain Floods \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/11\/02\/3f3b526c-754f-45a8-b997-ae0142894fa8\/thumbnail\/620x465\/c87d42693c5225b5d4e84d210c6d9a8d\/ap24307363912153.jpg?v=379420b9063a2aadbcd559df18e2d1ae 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/11\/02\/3f3b526c-754f-45a8-b997-ae0142894fa8\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/f3b49fdb2994d7aecf2c9eb440250040\/ap24307363912153.jpg?v=379420b9063a2aadbcd559df18e2d1ae 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Vehicles pile up in the streets caused by late Tuesday and early Wednesday storm that left hundreds dead or missing in Alfafar, Valencia region, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Angel Garcia \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/spain-deadly-floods-soldiers-police-valencia\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is sending 5,000 more soldiers and 5,000 more police to the eastern region of Valencia after deadly floods this week that killed more than 200 people, Prime Minister Pedro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121536\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}