Inside some of the vehicles that the water washed into piles or crashed into buildings, there were still bodies waiting to be identified.

Inside some of the vehicles that the water washed into piles or crashed into buildings, there were still bodies waiting to be identified.

MADRID (AP) — In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain on Tuesday swept away everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands saw livelihoods shattered. Three days later, authorities have recovered 205 bodies — 202 […]

Spain is sending 5,000 more soldiers and 5,000 more police to the eastern region of Valencia after deadly floods this week that killed more than 200 people, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Saturday.

More than 200 people have been killed in the country’s worst natural disaster in living memory.

UPDATE: 2 p.m. The pictures of the smiling toddlers on the wall somehow survived.

Flash floods devastate eastern Spain, leaving hundreds dead and thousands displaced, as authorities scramble to provide aid.

PAIPORTA, Spain — The pictures of the smiling toddlers on the wall somehow survived. Most everything else in the daycare — the cradles, the highchairs, the toys — was ruined when a crushing wall of water swept through Paiporta, turning the Valencia municipality of 30,000 into the likely epicenter of…