Almost half of Valencia’s flood victims were aged over 70, figures show

Volunteers clean the street in Paiporta, where the death toll was 45. Photograph: Jorge Zapata/EPA

Almost half of the 216 people known to have died in the catastrophic floods that hit the eastern Spanish region of Valencia at the end of October were 70 or above, according to a police analysis.

Figures from the data integration centre set up after the disaster show that 131 of the victims were male, 85 were female and 104 were aged over 70, including 15 aged over 90.