The ante mortem offices set up by the National Police and the Guardia Civil, in collaboration with forensic doctors, have counted up to 20:00 hours this Thursday, November 7, 78 active reports of disappearance in the province of Valencia related to the DANAa decrease of 15 cases compared to the previous day. The morgue of the City of Justice of Valencia has received since the beginning of the DANA a total of 207 fatalities, of which 200 have already been autopsied, according to the Superior Court of Justice of the Comunitat Valenciana (TSJCV). The Data Integration Center (CID) reported that of the deceased, 167 have been fully identified by fingerprints (140) and DNA analysis (27). However, 40 people remain unidentified. The TSJCV stressed that the numbers of active and deceased missing persons should not be added together, as disappearances may increase or decrease as victims are identified, new reports are received or living persons are located. The official number of deceased remains at 219. However, in the last hours firefighters have proceeded to locate the body of a man in Catarroja among reeds, mud and undergrowth.
Advances in the identification and delivery of remains
To date, 200 of the 207 victims who have undergone autopsy have been transferred to the Fira Valencia morgue, where the remains of 106 people have been handed over to their families for the corresponding funerals.
Affectation of homes in Torrent
In parallel, a first provisional report on the impact of the DANA on homes in Torrent (Valencia) has identified 117 homes affected, 95 in the neighborhood of Xenillet and 22 in El Pantano. This balance represents, compared to that of yesterday Wednesday, eight new fatalities and 22 additional identifications, in addition to one more autopsy performed and 15 less missing persons reports.
