Pope Francis has expressed solidarity with the residents of Spain affected by the floods, in which at least 205 people lost their lives and dozens remain missing.
“We pray for the people of the Iberian Peninsula, especially for the residents of Valencia affected by Storm Dana,” the Pope said during the Angelus.
“May God be a support to those who suffer and to the rescuers,” Pope Francis said, expressing his deepest “solidarity with the residents of Valencia.”
In Valencia, the hardest-hit eastern region, 500 soldiers are searching for the missing and assisting survivors of the storm, which has led authorities in Huelva, in the southwest of the country, to issue a new warning.
This is the worst tragedy in Spain’s modern history in terms of flooding and the second deadliest in Europe, after the 1970 floods in Romania that claimed 209 lives.
