Hopes have all but faded for finding survivors after flash floods wrought massive destruction and claimed at least 95 lives in southeast Spain.
It is feared that the death toll could rise substantially because the exact number of missing people is unknown.
Margarita Robles, the defence minister, said she was not optimistic about the death toll stabilising. She said teams on Thursday would start combing through the mud and debris with sniffer dogs.
A 71-year-old Briton was among those confirmed dead in the floods
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Friends and family members’ moving accounts of their search for missing loved ones, describing how they lost contact when the floods hit on Tuesday, have been broadcast on television and radio channels.
The authorities reported that 92 people had died in the region of Valencia and two in Castilla-La Mancha. A 71-year-old