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We are talking about the largest deployment of state security forces and bodies of the armed forces that has ever been made in our country in times of peace."
Addressing the nation, the PM said With a catastrophe still incalculable, the government’s priority is to maintain the plenary session only to control TVE,
Feijóo said on Wednesday, referring to parliamentary discussions to reform the state broadcaster It has so far carried out 4,800 rescues and helped more than 30,000 people in their homes, on the roads, and in flooded industrial estates,
he told reporters in Madrid after chairing a meeting of a flood crisis committee I have seen many things in politics, but nothing so despicable and inhuman,
If we can support the region we will do that of course, the other things the league has to decide,
It is the biggest operation by the Armed Forces in Spain in peacetime,
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in a televised statement on Saturday For me it's a tragedy, we also had this in Germany three years ago, it's also horrible to see this,
he said, referring to flash flooding in Germany's Ahr Valley in July 2021 which killed more than 180 people What is happening is very hard,
he told reporters ahead of his side's game against Las Palmas on Sunday I am aware the response is not enough, there are problems and severe shortages... towns buried by mud, desperate people searching for their relatives,
There are still dozens of people looking for their loved ones and hundreds of households mourning the loss of a relative, a friend or a neighbour,
he said in a televised address on Saturday morning That is why the Spanish government is today sending 4,000 more personnel from the military emergencies unit to Valencia province,
The situation we’re experiencing is tragic and dramatic,
I have been going around the town for three days helping everyone who needs it. We have a backpack full of food and water for anyone who needs it."
Rafael Armero, 19, who was in Alfafar, a suburb of Valencia, told Reuters on Saturday We need machinery, cranes, so that the sites can be accessed. We need a lot of help. And bread and water,
This is a disaster. There are a lot of elderly people who don’t have medicine. There are children who don’t have food. We don’t have milk, we don’t have water. We have no access to anything,
a resident of Alfafar, one of the most affected towns in south Valencia, told state television station TVE The situation is unbelievable. It’s a disaster, and there is very little help,
Emilio Cuartero, a resident of Massanassa on the outskirts of the city of Valencia, told The Associated Press I have been there all my life. All my memories are there. My parents lived there, … and now in one night, it is all gone.”
Speaking to the AP, Chiva resident Juan Vicente Perez said It’s the community itself that has to rally around and sort out provisions for everyone as they’ve had no help so far from the regional government,
Around a year’s worth of rain fell in a single day, and as you can tell, it’s had a devastating effect on the community. They’re still cut off – no electricity, no connection to any sort of power system here,
Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego said, reporting from Chiva In lieu of racing in Valencia, MotoGP will instead race for Valencia,
MotoGP said in a statement
