'It is all in ruins.' The shattered lives of Paiporta at the epicenter of Spain's floods
Most everything else in the daycare — the cradles, the highchairs, the toys — was ruined when a crushing wall of water swept through Paiporta, turning the Valencia municipality of 30,000 into the likely epicenter of Spain's deadliest natural disaster in living memory.
Devastation in Paiporta, at the epicenter of Spain's floods: 'Dozens of people saved lives all around here'
The city on the southern outskirts of Valencia was devastated by a sudden wave of mud almost 2 meters high, on the night of October 29. At least 62 people perished. Tales of tragedy and acts of courage intertwine in a community in a state of shock.
Anger and frustration erupted in Spain on Sunday as King Felipe VI arrived in the town of Paiporta to survey the damage from ...
The episode, and the sequence of unacceptable events, will be forever embedded in the collective memory of Paiporta. They ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Spain’s King Felipe VI and top government officials were pelted ...
Spain's worst floods in decades have left whole neighborhoods covered in mud and strewn with mangled cars and debris. More ...
as they visited the flood-stricken town of Paiporta. The queen appeared shocked and anguished while witnessing the aftermath of devastating floods and hearing the complaints made by the affected ...
Thousands of volunteers have arrived in the Spanish town of Paiporta, the hardest hit in the recent devastating floods, to ...
Millions in Spain and across the world have watched with heartache the images of Valencians coping with the ravages of the ...
Spain is deploying 7,500 troops to its eastern region hit by devastating floods, the government said on Monday in the face of ...
This Sunday, October 3, the King and Queen of Spain, the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, and the President of the ...
People in Spain’s Valencia were hit by the deadliest flood in the country's history which led to over 200 deaths. Frustrated ...
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