Flooding in Spain has killed 95 people, new provisional figures show. The Spanish Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Victor Torres, said in an interview with Spanish state broadcaster Air Te Ve E that the death toll was 92 in the autonomous region of Valencia alone. Two people died in the region of Castile-La Mancha and one - in Andalusia, writes BTA.
Meteorologists say that parts of Valencia received as much rain in eight hours yesterday as it usually does in a year.
Flooding caused traffic problems on highways, farmland was flooded in Valencia, which produces two-thirds of Spain's citrus, which is the world's leading exporter of the commodity.
Residents in the worst-hit areas say they saw people climbing onto the roofs of their cars to escape the oncoming water.
Minister Torres told reporters that authorities could not yet give a final death toll because there were still many missing people. With these words, the minister hinted that the number of dead could increase.
"This shows the enormous magnitude of the tragedy,", Torres stressed.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez pledged to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure and said in a televised address that "all of Spain is crying together" with the people who are still looking for their missing loved ones.