Shops start to reopen in Valencia after catastrophic flooding kills 219 in Spain

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93 people have been officially declared missing in Spain’s worst natural disaster in decades, after torrential rain battered the eastern region at the end of October.

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00:00Some shops and businesses have started to reopen in Valencia's suburbs just over a week

00:07after catastrophic flooding devastated eastern Spain.

00:11At least 219 people have been killed in the worst natural disaster in decades after torrential

00:16rain battered Valencia at the end of October.

00:19Meteorologists say a year's worth of rain had fallen on the region in just eight hours.

00:25Ninety-three people have been officially declared missing, but authorities admit that

00:29the real number could be higher.

00:31Another 54 bodies remain unidentified.

00:35Authorities say more than 36,000 people have been rescued.

00:39The full extent of the damage is unknown, but Spain's Consortium for Insurance Compensation

00:44estimates that it will spend at least 3.5 billion euros in compensation.

00:50The emergency operation mobilized by central authorities has grown to more than 17,000

00:55troops and police officers.

00:59Meanwhile football pitchers in the region have been turned into junkyards to free the

01:04streets from the thousands of car wrecks that remained piled up.

01:08Tow trucks drove to Valencia province from all over Spain to remove the wrecks to clear

01:12the streets for emergency vehicles.

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