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Spain's retreating floods expose personal lives to public view

As the floodwaters retreat after the worst floods in Spain's modern history, they expose a. world coloured brown with mud, and possessions scattered throughout the. streets of towns and villages.

The corpses are piling up in Valencia's morgue but the human. toll can also be seen in the personal belongings that the waters. removed from homes and deposited in the general public street: a. cookbook, a bag, an umbrella that failed to secure its owner. from the heavy rains.

In a cemetery in Alfafar, a residential area south of the city of. Valencia, somebody has scrawled RIP above a cars and truck crudely drawn. in the mud.

A number of the approximated 100,000 automobiles destroyed by the floods. ended up being tombs for their passengers as they sank under increasing. waters on the street or in garages and underground parking lot. More than 200 people are known to have died.

In Letur, in the Castile-La Mancha area, the floods ripped. away masonry on a structure, exposing a room where framed family. photos rest on a chest of drawers.

There are few children in the streets after the floods. Numerous. were sent out to stay with relatives and buddies as the adults. stayed behind to clean up.

But a toy pistol and a plastic football, abandoned on the. street and covered in mud, are a suggestion that they will soon. need to return to damaged homes. In one narrow alleyway lit by a solitary light in Utiel, a. town 85 km

(source: Reuters)