The town of Alfafar in Spain's Valencia region is one of the worst-hit by the floods. CGTN’s reporter Ken Browne is on the ground to describe the scene.
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00:00We're here on the streets of Valencia, the streets of Alfafa, as you can see one of the worst hit
00:04regions in this natural disaster, the worst natural disaster in decades here in Spain.
00:11Just to give you an idea of the scale of the destruction, you can see many many cars
00:19damaged here. Let me take you inside to give you an idea of the kind of damage that's been done
00:25to the businesses here. These cars were not here in this garage, they were dragged in by the force
00:32of the water, the torrents that swept through here on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
00:37A year's worth of rainfall fell in just eight hours and now they're doing what they can to
00:43get the mud out. You can see it's all ankle deep in mud, you can imagine the cost of the damage done here.