«That parking lot is a graveyard». They are the first words of the military divers from the Ume who managed to enter the underground parkingtotally flooded, enormous Bonaire shopping centernear the city of Aldaya. At the moment offloodOn Tuesday afternoon, clothing stores, restaurants and cinemas were open and there were hundreds of people in the area. Here too the level ofwaterfall rose up to three meters, and the parkingwith 5,700 places available, has become a real death trap. According to sources of rescuedquoted by the newspaper eldiario.es, le victims they can be “incalculable”. The toll is 200 dead and 1900 missing in the Valencian Community.
Macabre irony of fate, as we read on the website of BonaireThe parking turned Tuesday into a death trap was “free and unlimited.” Also access from escalators al shopping center is completely devastated, blocked not only bywaterfall but also from the remains and from debris brought by the violence of the flood. Even getting out of there was impossible.
According to the local pressthis car park is one of the major points of concern of the rescue teams. There is still no official news but it has been leaked that there would be many inside bodies. Together with sub who work in very difficult conditions, even on site firefighters than with theirs pumps they are working tirelessly to empty the parking lot fromwaterfall.