Death toll from Spanish floods rises to 95 as year of rain falls in a day in Valencia

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At least 95 people have been killed in the deadliest flooding to hit Spain for three decades after torrential rain battered the eastern region of Valencia, sweeping away bridges and buildings on Oct 29, said authorities.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Sound of running water.

00:12Sound of running water.

00:24Sound of running water.

00:30When we wanted to realize it, we already had it.

00:34We didn't have a solution.

00:36And well, you can see the disaster and the catastrophe that there is.

00:39And we are all very affected by the missing people, who are our friends.

00:44All the six missing are known.

00:48And friends.

00:51And we are very sad for not having them with us.

00:58It seems that there are several people who disappeared.

01:01Six, also. It is not known yet.

01:04The more hours pass, the more difficult it is to find them alive.

01:07But well, hope is never lost.

01:13This morning, when I came, I found him.

01:16Last night he was fine.

01:17He broke that window and the water goes up.

01:20And you can see how tired he is.

01:23But well, he destroyed everything.

01:26Sound of water.

01:40In a short time, water began to fall.

01:44At first it was only the rivage.

01:47And suddenly a lot of water began to come from the liberal side.

01:51And it was flooding.

01:54And the current reached practically the waist.

02:01In a very short time.

02:03For example, I have the house of my in-laws.

02:06The water came to me through the waist.

02:11We haven't slept all night.

02:13We haven't found the car, for example.

02:15We don't know where it is.

02:17It has been catastrophic.

02:19And on top of that, this is a part that is made of balsa.

02:22So, of course, there was no way to drain the water.

02:26So, fatal.

02:28I enter the courtyard, in the houses, up to the top.

02:34Sound of firecrackers.

02:45The pity are the people who have died.

02:47There have been many.

02:49There have been many people who have lost their lives.

02:52This, the truth is that, as I told you, are my savings.

02:56It is my effort, my life.

02:59But we are alive.

03:01Impotent, really.

03:04You see that in half an hour,

03:06that it was half an hour that the river grew,

03:09we have lost almost everything.

03:12Or everything, as the one who says.

03:14Also a terrible scare,

03:16because my family, my wife, my son,

03:18my wife had to take my daughter out in her arms

03:20when the water came through almost the chest,

03:24to be able to escape to the toilet.

03:26An impotence.

03:31Silence.

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