HEARTBREAKING new images show mountains of wrecked cars in Spain following the devastating floods that destroyed the country and killed over 200.
Hellish scenes when the floods were rampant saw roads turned into rivers and torrents of debris-filled mud sweeping away cars, people, animals and buildings.
GettyAn aerial view of wrecked cars from the floods stored in a junkyard outside Paiporta[/caption]
GettyOne car even has grass spouting out the dashboard from the mud[/caption]
GettyThe junkyard resembles more of a swamp with vehicles sinking into the ground[/caption]
New images show the aftermath of the deadly floods and the hundreds of cars that were hit with sheer force by the tsunami-like waters.
Aerial shots of a car junkyard outside of Pairporta – belonging to the province of Valencia where the floods hit the worst – show various scrapped vehicles mounted on one another.
Most have missing windscreens and windows that would have been pushed in by the deadly floods.
Meanwhile the fronts and rears of some vehicles in the car graveyard are captured completely crushed.
Another shocking image shows the dashboard of a wrecked car that’s coated with mud on the inside.
So much so, grass has actually started to spout.
The yard itself is completely brown from the floods and resembles more of a swamp with some vehicles’ wheels halfway sunken into the ground.
Mud on the outside of the cars now looks to have hardened as efforts continue to clean up regions that remain in crisis after the floods.
Every car would have been searched through for any casualties, with many of the over 200 found dead in their vehicles – but many remain tragically unaccounted for.
Over the weekend, riots cops battled against furious protesters over the deadly floods.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched through the streets of Valencia on Saturday as they hurled burning flares, bottles and brooms at the heavily armoured officers.
Demonstrators demanded several top officials – including the regional president of the city – to resign over the torrential flooding as they continue to blast how the catastrophe was dealt with.
Regional leader Carlos Mazon has been heavily scrutinised after his administration took hours to issue any kind of flood warning to citizens.
Hundreds died in the tragic disaster which started on October 29 with many people still missing across eastern Spain.
Droves of passionate marchers called for Mazon to leave his role as they protested outside Valencia’s city hall.
Hundreds came with angry signs reading things such as “Mazon Resign” and “You Killed Us”.
As others spent hours chanting in the streets and even threw mud at the government building in protest.
Earlier this month, more Spain flood survivors were seen throwing mud at King Felipe.
Fuming residents chanted “murderers!” as the monarch and his wife Queen Letizia walked through the ravaged streets of Paiporta, just outside Valencia.
GettyCars are loaded on top of one another in the horror images[/caption]
GettyThe region remains in crisis after the floods[/caption]
GettyOther various materials that have been wrecked by the floods[/caption]
Spain‘s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez also had to be evacuated from the scene, according to Spanish broadcaster RTVE, as chaos erupted when the official contingent started to walk.
Footage showed people attacking the PM’s car, chasing the black SUV as police sirens were heard in the background.
Over a week on from the devastating floods, nearly 100 people are still officially declared as missing.
Authorities have even been forced to admit that more may be still unaccounted for.
Over 1,200 troops, dozens of specialist sniffer dogs and rescue workers have all been battling against the torrid conditions to try and find any survivors.
The latest piece of tech being used to help recover bodies is a research ship called the Ramón Margalef.
It has been enlisted to undertake the grim task of searching for cars and bodies swept out to sea in the catastrophic floods.
The vessel will be using robot submarine and sonar to scan and map the seabed in the increasingly desperate search for those who were swept away.
It comes as the northeastern region of Catalonia was also hit with flash floods on Friday – in an eerily similar disaster to the ones that struck Valencia.
Agonising scenes saw roads turned into rivers and torrents of debris-filled mud sweeping away cars, people, animals and buildings.
Residents woke up to the fresh destruction with local mayor Pia Serinyana confirming over 30 cars had been washed away by flooding.
A nearby river had burst its banks, just as many had some 10 days ago in and around Valencia.
There were no human casualties reported, although one local resident expressed their fears in a post on X writing: “The situation is very serious in Cadaques.”
Spain riots & fury
By Georgie English, Foreign News Reporter
HUNDREDS of thousands of people marched through the streets of Valencia as they hurled burning flares, bottles and brooms at the heavily armoured officers – protesting over the deadly Spanish floods.
Demonstrators demanded several top officials – including the regional president of the city – to resign over the torrential flooding as they continue to blast how the catastrophe was dealt with.
Regional leader Carlos Mazon has been heavily scrutinised after his administration took hours to issue any kind of flood warning to citizens.
Hundreds died in the tragic disaster which started on October 29 with many people still missing across eastern Spain.
Over the weekend, droves of passionate marchers called for Mazon to leave his role as they protested outside Valencia’s city hall.
Hundreds came with angry signs reading things such as “Mazon Resign” and “You Killed Us”.
As others spent hours chanting in the streets and even threw mud at the government building in protest.
Riot police had lined up outside the city hall building as the evening drew close before hell broke loose with protesters launching a barrage of items at the cops.
The city’s mayor, Maria Jose Catala, took to social media and posted pics of broken windows and a video appearing to show a fire being started.
She captioned: “Vandalism is not the solution.”
Thousands of people have watched their homes and belongings be destroyed from the floods, with streets still coated in mud and debris.
Earlier this month, more Spain flood survivors were seen throwing mud at King Felipe.
Fuming residents chanted “murderers!” as the monarch and his wife Queen Letizia walked through the ravaged streets of Paiporta, just outside Valencia.
Spain‘s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez also had to be evacuated from the scene, according to Spanish broadcaster RTVE, as chaos erupted when the official contingent started to walk.
Footage showed people attacking the PM’s car, chasing the black SUV as police sirens were heard in the background.
Mazon, from the conservative Popular Party, was quick to defend his actions.
He said that his officials didn’t receive enough warning from central government and that the scale of the disaster was unforeseeable.
GettyThe mud looks to have hardened on the wrecked vehicles[/caption]
GettySo much land has been ruined by the deadly floods[/caption]
GettyCars have had their windscreens and windows pushed in by the sheer force of the floods[/caption]
GettySome people still remain unaccounted for in the horrific floods[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
