The total number of fatalities recorded due to the DANA and the floods that affected the province of Valencia last October 29 has increased to 217after the death of a person in a hospital. Meanwhile, the number of missing persons has been reduced to 14, two less than this Thursday.
Those 217 deaths, all with autopsies performed, are fully identified and in 213 of the cases their families have already taken care of their mortal remains to celebrate the funerals. This has been reflected in the balance sheet with the accumulated history since the beginning of this episode prepared by the Data Integration Center (CID), updated this Friday at 8:00 p.m., as reported by this organization in a statement.
Of the 217 identifications of the deceased, 168 have been produced thanks to fingerprint analysis and 45 by DNAwhile four cases correspond to hospital identification while alive. For their part, the offices ante mortem enabled by the National Police and the Civil Guard In collaboration with the forensic doctors, they currently have 14 active files for disappearance reports, two less than at the close of the balance sheet this Thursday, at 8:00 p.m.
Both parameters, active disappearances and the total number of fatalities, are different, so They should not be added in any case. The files ante mortem of missing persons that are active correspond exclusively to complaints where relatives have provided different information and provided biological samples at police offices that will allow the subsequent identification of their loved ones.
In this way, compared to the previous day’s balance, in the last 24 hours there was one more deceased person – with the corresponding autopsy and identification report already carried out – and two fewer active disappearance files. On the other hand, the morgue enabled in Valencia Fairwhere all the bodies are taken from the City of Justice of Valencia once the autopsy has been carried out, has handed over to their families – until 8:00 p.m. this Friday – the remains of 209 of the fatalitiesthree more than those carried out until this Thursday at the same time.