They died while trying to remove their vehicles in the middle of a flood caused by DANA

The DANA that hits the Peninsula has left a trail of devastation in Valencia. The district of La Torre has become the scene of a new horror when the Police located this Thursday seven bodies in the garage of a building. When heavy rains began to flood the town’s streets, some residents tried to get their vehicles out, but they were blocked for hours.

The force of the water broke the doors of the garage on Mariano Brull Street and the seven victims were unable to flee. During the following hours, relatives of the missing They began to make calls to locate thembut they have not been found until the water level has begun to drop. It was then that the tragedy was discovered.

At first, the firefighters They dismantled the elevator, believing that the missing people would have been trapped in it and, being left without coverage, would not have been able to communicate. But in the early hours of this Thursday the worst news arrived. Authorities have found the bodies of the victims, initially thought to be eight, inside the garage of the property.

One of the deceased is the Local Police officer from Valencia Rubén Lima, with whom his family lost contact on Tuesday. According to The Provinceshis father had been looking for him for hours, although the man claims that he had already lost hope of finding his son alive.

The number of victims continues to rise, according to the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá. The devastation has hit the districts of La Torre and Castellar, where 12 deaths are currently recorded.

La Torre has been the area that has recorded the most personal and material damage. In addition to the seven bodies found in the garage, authorities They have found the body of another 45-year-old woman who was trapped in her home. Another person who was rescued on Wednesday in this district died early Thursday morning in the hospital.

Catalá has explained that at this time They are still “in the rescue phase”especially in La Torre”, and added that they are going to address, “from now on”, the need to reinforce security. The total number of deaths in all of Spain due to DANA amounts to 158of which 155 are from the province of Valencia.