Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - A British couple has been found dead in their car days after severe flash floods swept through Spain.
Don Turner, 78, and his wife Terry, 74, have been missing since Tuesday
when torrential rains began to batter Valencia. Ms Turner told friends
they were “popping out” to shop for supplies.
The couple’s daughter, Ruth O’Loughlin, confirmed the bodies were
discovered on Saturday.
Ms O'Loughlin told BBC Radio WM that she found out her parents had died
after receiving a message from their friends asking to call them.
“He said ‘Ruth, get your husband,’ I called my husband in and he just
said ‘Martin, hold your wife,’ and said that they’d been found and they’d been
found in their car,” Ms O’Loughlin said.
“We still don’t know exactly what happened to them. The only thing we’ve
got from this is that they were together. It’s not the way you want your
parents to go,” she added.
The floods, described as the worst decades, have claimed the lives
of more than 200 people, as rescuers race against time to locate
survivors.
Spanish rescue teams have not found any casualties so far in Valencia’s
Bonaire shopping mall underground car park, the interior ministry said on
Monday. The ministry said work was continuing in the car park, which has 5,700
parking spaces, to find out if there may be fatalities.
Thousands of Spaniards have flocked to affected towns to help with
rescue efforts and clean up, but anger has been rising over a perceived lack of
warning over the risk of flooding, and slow or insufficient support in the
aftermath.
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