MADRID, Nov 4 – Spanish King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia are to visit the disaster region around Valencia, reported German news agency (dpa).
The visit comes five days after the severe storms in the east and south of Spain, which killed at least 213 people. The exact itinery of the visit has not been disclosed.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez posted on X that he would be travelling with the royal couple.
The three visitors are likely to face some resentment in the villages west and south of Valencia, which were hit hardest by Tuesday’s floods.
Many people from the devastated communities felt completely abandoned in the first hours and days after the disaster, with cars and furniture piled up on the muddy streets of villages left without drinking water, food, electricity or telecommunications.
Many mayors took matters into their own hands and organised initial assistance for their inhabitants in the villages, which were cut off from the road network.
