Month: October 2024

Since yesterday, several bodies of the victims of the devastating floods of the past few days have been arriving at the Valencia Palace of Justice. It is there that the authorities have set up the main mortuary required to deal with the tragedy, in which at least 95 people died (92 in the province of Valencia). In a communiqué, the Valencian judicial authority explained that ‘an entire underground level of the car park’ of the facility had been made available to house the corpses, a space that was set aside to facilitate autopsies and the identification of the bodies.According to the TV station La Sexta, ‘at least 10 hearse vehicles’ arrived within hours of the temporary mortuary being opened. In the meantime, the government sent several forensic teams from other regions and also prepared several ‘portable mortuaries’. Defence Minister Margarita Robles told Cadena Ser Radio that ‘unfortunately, we know from the Covid experience that portable mortuaries are important’, adding that psychologists have also been sent to assist survivors and relatives of victims.Riproduzione riservata © Copyright ANSA

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