The United States Government has sent its condolences to Spain on Thursday for the fatalities recorded after the flooding caused by the DANA, which according to the provisional balance, has left 158 dead, most of them in the Valencian Community, although there have also been deaths in Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia.
“The United States expresses its deepest condolences to the Spanish people for the tragic loss of human life due to unprecedented flooding. Our thoughts are with all those who have lost their loved ones due to the recent weather conditions,” said the spokesman for the State Department, Matthew Miller, through his profile on the social network X.
The DANA, which is mainly affecting the east of the country, has so far left a provisional balance of 158 dead, 155 in the Valencian Community, two in Castilla-La Mancha and another in Andalusia. These figures place this natural disaster as one of the most serious in the last 75 years, even ahead of the Biescas flood (Huesca) in 1996 with 87 deaths and the Turia flood in 1957, in which between 80 and 100 people lost their lives.
Although it is not clear which natural disaster has had the highest number of deaths in Spain, since only in recent decades has the counting of victims been more accurate and reliable, the floods in the Vallés in the province of Barcelona in September 1962 are considered the largest natural catastrophe in recent history, with between 600 and 1,000 fatalities, as well as thousands of injuries and a large number of economic losses.
