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Deaths due to DANA in Spain Their number is 214, the vast majority in the Valencian Community (210), three in Castile-La Mancha and one in Malaga.

In Castile-La Mancha, the figure was updated following the discovery of a lifeless body this Sunday morning one of five people missing in the town of Letur in Albacetemost affected by DANA in this community.

Latest balance of deaths due to the passage of DANA through the province of Valencia leaves 210 dead, This was reported by the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat of Valencia.

Until now, There is no official information about missing persons. in the province of Valencia.

Lifeless bodies of the first people killed by DANA, who were identified They arrived on Saturday at one of the Feria Valencia pavilions. the premises are guarded by the UME military and the National Police.

Civil Defense said the woman was rescued alive after passing three days locked in a car which was left at the bottom of the underground passage in Benetusser.

Meanwhile, there is a wave of solidarity: thousands of people are moving to the areas most affected by the floods in the Valencian Community. Two new elements have joined the parade of volunteers who travel daily to the south of the Valencia metropolitan area to fight the mud, armed with shovels, brooms and rakes: gloves and maskss, necessary uniform items to protect against possible health problems caused by stagnant water.

This is DANA one of the most serious natural disasters in the last 75 years in Spain, even ahead of the 1996 Biescas (Huesca) flood, which killed 87 people, and the 1957 Turia flood, which killed between 80 and 100 people.

Although it is unclear which natural disaster caused the most deaths in Spain, as it is only in recent decades that casualty counts have become more accurate and reliable, the flood of Vallès in the province of Barcelona in September 1962 is considered the largest natural disaster in recent history, killing between 600 and 1,000 people, in addition to thousands of injuries and a large number of economic losses.

In second place is the storm, which in October 1973 it killed at least 150 people. in the provinces of Granada, Almeria, Alicante and Murcia. It was in this latter region that heavy rains caused the greatest damage, killing a total of 89 people.

Followed by failure of the Vega de Tera dam, in the city of Zamora Ribadelago, which was caused by heavy torrential rains on January 9, 1959. When the dam burst, eight million cubic meters of water spilled out, devastating the city and killing 144,523 of its inhabitants. neighbours.

The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) assured that this DANA “most unfavorable” cold snap of this century in the Valencian Community, with impact and records higher than DANA in September 2019, and at the height of the two great storms of the eighties, in October 1982, Tows Swamp, which killed at least 30 people; and November 1987, when four people died.

(according to information from Europe Press, EFE)