{"id":4658,"date":"2024-11-03T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/residents-throw-mud-at-spanish-king-on-visit-to-flooded-town\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:52:31","slug":"residents-throw-mud-at-spanish-king-on-visit-to-flooded-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/residents-throw-mud-at-spanish-king-on-visit-to-flooded-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents throw mud at Spanish king on visit to flooded town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2024\/11\/03\/4\/5234504.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The scenes playing out in Paiporta on Sunday laid bare the mounting sense of abandonment among the devastated areas and the lingering anger over why an alert urging residents not to leave home on Tuesday was sent after the floods began surging, The Guardian reported.<\/p>\n<p>The official visit came as the death toll climbed to 214 and mayors from the affected municipalities pleaded with officials to send help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very angry and we\u2019re devastated,\u201d said Guillermo Luj\u00e1n, the mayor of Aldaia. \u201cWe have a town in ruins. We need to start over and I\u2019m begging for help. Please help us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The town\u2019s 33,000 residents were among many in the region grappling with the aftermath of the ferocious floods\u00a0that rank as the deadliest in Spain\u2019s modern history. At least 214 people have been killed, almost all of them\u00a0in the region of Valencia, while the number of missing remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Luj\u00e1n said his town was in desperate need of heavy machinery to clear out the vehicles and debris piled up along the streets, the report added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/223972\/Residents-throw-mud-at-Spanish-king-on-visit-to-flooded-town\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scenes playing out in Paiporta on Sunday laid bare the mounting sense of abandonment among the devastated areas and the lingering anger over why an alert urging residents not to leave home on Tuesday was sent after the floods began surging, The Guardian reported. The official visit came as the death toll climbed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}