‘No-one is helping us’published at 14:50 Greenwich Mean Time
Bethany Bell
Reporting from Valencia
Near the pedestrian bridge crossing over the Turia
river in Valencia, I meet Amparo Esteve.
The roads to her home town of Paiporta,
4km away, are closed. She was preparing to walk there to help
her neighbour whose flat was flooded.
Amparo was in Paiporta when the floods
struck. “My neighbours told me to run as fast as I can. The waters were following me really, really
fast.
“I was at home for three days with no light, no
water, no phones, nothing,” she says. “I couldn’t call my mum to
tell her that I was okay. We didn’t have food, no water for drink and nothing.”
Amparo says she doesn’t know if it safe to
return to her home because of looters. At the moment, she’s staying with her
grandparents.
She is very angry with the authorities. “No one
is helping us. I’ve never been in a war, but this is what it seems like. I
don’t have any more words.”