“The whole of Spain is watching with horror what is happening here,” Polsat news reporter Łukas Dubanjevic points out. He arrived at a shopping center in Valencia that had been flooded by flash floods in Spain. There is a large underground parking lot under the pavilion. It is not yet known what happened to the owners of the vehicles parked there.
Łukasz Dubanjevic arrived at a shopping center in Bonaire on Sunday. – Now all of Spain is watching them. The reporter pointed out that this is a real nightmare and the number of victims could increase significantly.
There is a multi-level underground parking lot that can accommodate 5,700 cars in the basement of the shopping center.
Video: Report from outside Bonaire Shopping Center
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Bonaire Shopping Center. The underground parking lot was flooded due to flooding.
– At that moment when the floodwaters were flowing through the municipalities of Paiporta and Aldaia, it was a normal working day when you can shop in the malls. Just imagine, it all took minutes, seconds, Duvanievich noted.
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– All these people rushed to the underground parking lot to save their cars. Mobile phone data operated by the Civil Guard shows that many people who were in the shopping center simply did not leave, the Polsat News reporter stressed.
Water has been pumped from downtown Bonaire since Friday. – We all hope someone survives here. All of Spain is watching in horror what is happening here, the journalist said.
As of Sunday evening, Spain's civil defense authorities estimated the death toll from the floods at 217. 1,000 people are still missing, and that number is likely to rise. Additionally, rescue teams had to suspend part of their search operations due to worsening weather conditions.
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