Flood death toll climbs to five: Man rescued in Xàtiva dies in A&E
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 @ 11:51 AM
A FIFTH fatal victim of the flash floods battering Spain's east coast has just been reported, according to emergency services in the province of Valencia.
The 58-year-old was rescued alive from a cave in Xàtiva, about an hour inland towards the centre of the province.
According to firefighters and paramedics, who were called out at around 15.30 yesterday (Monday), the cave was on the way up to Xàtiva's iconic hilltop castle, one of the town's most popular tourism attractions.
After dragging the man out of the flood water, they gave him first aid for a severe head injury and hypothermia before rushing him to Xàtiva's Lluís Alcanyís hospital.
But he died later last night in A&E, medics reveal.
Between Friday night and Monday night, two men in Los Alcázares (Murcia) aged 40 and 47 lost their lives after being dragged into a swimming pool in the first case and pulled under by the current in his garage in the second – two separate incidences – whilst a 30-year-old man drowned in a gushing stream in Castellón after his car was swept away and flipped over, and a pensioner who tried to reach his car parked near the seafront in Finestrat (Alicante province) was washed away by four-metre-high waves.
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