The fatalities due to the passage of the DANA have increased to 202 people in the Valencian Community, two in Castilla-La Mancha and one in Malaga, according to the latest reports. The rescue and rescue work has not stopped and there are already more than 1,700 troops displaced throughout the territory to be able to locate all those missing since last Tuesday, October 29.
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© GTRESAfter several days of commotion, they are many testimonies that arrive from the survivors, who are recovering from the shock caused by the catastrophic DANA. One of the most heartbreaking has been that of Amparo, a 69-year-old woman who saw her neighbors die and spent more than nine hours on a rooftop. In statements for And now Sonsoles, The resident of the town of Picanya wanted to tell her distressing story: “From night to day I see myself on the street again. And still giving thanks that you are alive.”
© Antena 3When the water began to rise and was already up to the edge of her neck, she thought she would die, “I hugged my dog and said, look, let it be whatever God wants. At least we will go together,” she commented, but she managed to climb up together. his dog to the roof, where one of the young neighbors of the block was waiting for them with a ladder. “They told me let her go and I, no, if I let her go I’ll let go. And here we are both, alive” she narrates. A heartbreaking story that moved the presenter Sonsoles and all the collaborators who were on the television set.
© Antena 3Amparo, along with several neighbors, managed to save themselves, climbing on a roof until a tractor shovel arrived and managed to save them at dawn, “I don’t know how we are alive.” But not all of them could be saved, “half of them couldn’t leave their house,” she says, but also, the most tragic thing for her was learning about the death of one of her 95-year-old neighbors, who was trapped under the mud of her apartment. . “On Monday I was eating with her and another neighbor, Rosa, and they are both dead,” he says through tears and with a broken voice. Amparo was the youngest of the neighbors, and the only one who could be saved.
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© Antena 3The news of the death of her neighbor buried in the mud came moments after her son Rodolfo’s intervention for the Antena 3 program, distressed at not knowing anything about her. “My mother is a 95-year-old woman, she lived alone on a ground floor with some friends of the same age and we think that apart from her, there may be someone else as well. She has to be buried in the mud at home,” statements that They confirmed moments later.