The sadness is infinite. Every day the drip of bad news is incessant. Yesterday it was learned, as Las Provincias announced, that the 222nd victim of DANA, found last Monday in the Valencian town of Villamarxant, it’s Javierthe father of 4-year-old boy found dead on November 1two days after the tragedy, in Sot de Chera, the town where they lived.
Apparently the boy was trying to see from a window What was the situation when a flood of water arrived? and part of the structure of the house collapsed and fell into the water, after which the property collapsed and buried the father.
The drama of the catastrophe is thus magnified in the region of The Serranosin the small municipality of less than 500 inhabitants. It was in the area of the Fuente de Santa María as a result of the collapse of a four-story building. The minor died and his father was swept away by the water.
According to Las Provincias, both the mother and another daughter of the family were outside the home when the fatality occurred, so they were unharmed. The boy and his father were looking out of the window on the farm and became victims.
The child’s body was recovered from the rubble and taken to the municipality’s church until the uprising was carried out, while the search continues for his father, although it is feared that he may have also died.
The town, where about 300 inhabitants reside, experienced two large avenues of water on the night of October 29, due to torrential rains and the overflow of the nearby Busot reservoir damand has preventively relocated some 12 or 13 people from the lower part of the town to the upper part of the town.
Sot de Chera was devastated. There were other houses with collapses, but without victims. The uncontrolled waters pushed fifty cars and collapsed two picnic areas. The town was left without electricity and water and the force of the river uprooted the pipe system.