The news was announced on Saturday night by the Civil Defense of the autonomous region of the Valencian Community of Spain, which said that floods had moved the vehicle near the entrance to the subway in the town of Benetússer.
The announcement was made by the president of the Civil Defense of the Valencian Community, Martín Pérez, in front of almost 400 volunteers stationed in the Moncada pavilion, said the mayor of Benetússer, Amparo Orts.
Las Provincias newspaper reported that the woman was immediately transferred to a hospital after being rescued. At least 211 people died in floods in Spain, the country’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, said on Saturday.
The official number of known victims so far was 205 dead, of which 203 were in the autonomous region of the Valencian Community. According to Sánchez, teams from the armed forces and the security forces of the state have already found 211 bodies in the places where they worked on the ground, mentioning in particular and for example thousands of garages, houses and flooded roads.
The Prime Minister, who made a statement from the Spanish Government headquarters in Madrid, said that there are still dozens of people who are still looking for missing family and friends, without specifying a number.
The operation to locate and recover any missing bodies will continue in the coming days, he said, in a statement in which he announced that five other military personnel and 5,000 members of the forces had been evacuated. to send the security of Spain to the field, to answer him. “difficult situation”, with “serious problems and needs” and in which there was insufficient response from administrations in Valencia.
Since Friday, the team from the Portuguese Search and Rescue Association has been on the ground to help with rescue operations, who told Lusa that they found “a devastating situation, much worse than they expected”.
On the phone, the chief Pedro Batista said that the team, which was made up of ten workers, three search and rescue dogs and three vehicles equipped with pre-hospital materials and open access, went to Valencia in response to request for help made by the Valencian. firefighters from the Emergency and Disaster Rescue Unit and the Spanish Embassy.
The head of operations explained that it is “very difficult” to make progress on the land, given the amount of mud. “Often we put our feet in and get mud up to our eyes. We were completely stuck without being able to walk. We often need help even to leave that place, which also makes it difficult for us to make progress on the ground”, he said.
