Spain flood deaths top 200, hopes fade for missing
Cars and a campervan are strewn over railway tracks after being swept up in the recent flash flooding in the nearby municipality Alfafar on November 1, 2024 in the Alfafar municipality of Valencia, Spain.
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Rescuers raised the death toll in Spain’s worst floods for a generation to 205 on Friday (November 1, 2024) and fears grew for the dozens missing as hopes of finding survivors faded.The floods that have tossed vehicles, collapsed bridges and covered towns with mud since Tuesday (October 29, 2024) are the European country’s deadliest such disaster in decades.The organisation coordinating emergency services in the hardest-hit eastern Valencia region said 202 people had been confirmed...