Citizens, volunteers and thousands of soldiers and police officers pressed on with their gargantuan clean-up effort to clear out mud and debris following devasting floods in eastern Spain.
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00:00Citizens, volunteers and thousands of soldiers and police officers continued a joint clean-up
00:08effort following devastating floods in eastern Spain that killed over 200 people.
00:15Throughout the town of Aldaya, near Valencia, volunteers set up medical and food distribution
00:20points.
00:21But many people feel abandoned by authorities.
00:24No, no, here the whole street was full of cars and here no one.
00:31The only thing is that we, all the neighbours here, understood each other very well, we have
00:37organised ourselves very well and we have been cleaning and that is why it is like this,
00:42because we have done it ourselves.
00:44We set up a table making coffee for the people who came to clean and we have made ourselves
00:51a place where the food comes from, we have made ourselves a point.
00:57Spain is used to autumn storms that can lead to flooding, but the latest ones have produced
01:02the deadliest flooding in living memory for Spaniards.
01:06The situation in large parts of Valencia remains dramatic.
01:10Ninety kilometres of regional railway line were destroyed by the floods.
01:14It will take months to get back to normal.