'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.
Thousands of volunteers have arrived in the Spanish town of Paiporta, the hardest hit in the recent devastating floods, to ...
The episode, and the sequence of unacceptable events, will be forever embedded in the collective memory of Paiporta. They ...
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 ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Spain’s King Felipe VI and top government officials were pelted ...
Murderers, murderers!” and “Get out!” some yelled as protests erupted during King Felipe VI’s visit to the town of Paiporta in the hard-hit Valencia region.
Spain is deploying 7,500 troops to its eastern region hit by devastating floods, the government said on Monday in the face of ...
Millions in Spain and across the world have watched with heartache the images of Valencians coping with the ravages of the ...
Residents of Paiporta, the worst-hit town in Spain's devastating floods, unleashed their anger at King Felipe VI on Sunday, ...
Spain's worst floods in decades have left whole neighborhoods covered in mud and strewn with mangled cars and debris. More ...
This Sunday, October 3, the King and Queen of Spain, the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, and the President of the ...
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