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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Paolo Santalucia and Joseph Wilson

At the Spanish flood ‘ground zero’ normal is a long way away

Jorge Tarazona attaches a poster to a car in Paiporta, Valencia, Spain - (AP)

The mangled car in which Jorge Tarazona’s three-year-old niece and sister-in-law perished in last week’s catastrophic flooding in Spain now hangs halfway off the ragged edge of a highway.

His brother managed to survive, clinging to a fence. He and his family had been caught in traffic driving home to Paiporta on Valencia’s southern outskirts, Tarazona said. They had no chance to escape when the tsunami-like wave quickly overflowed the nearby drainage canal and swept away everything in its path.

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