Missing British couple found dead in their car Devastating flood in Spain.

according to BBCDon, 78, and Terri Turner, 74, were last seen in Pedralba on Tuesday, October 29, before heavy rain hit Valencia, Spain, which continued into Wednesday. Guard And Independent He also reported that the couple was found dead.

They were found on Saturday, November 2, after telling neighbors they were going out to fill up their car with gas. Their daughter, Ruth O’Loughlin, hoped her parents could stay safe under the circumstances.

“We had hope that they were still alive and perhaps taking refuge somewhere,” he told the BBC. “We talked about my mom and dad coming here to spend some time with us next year and we just ended the conversation and I’m really glad I said ‘I love you’ and that he said he loved me too.”

His sister, Renee Turner, spoke to their father on Monday, October 28, and was expecting to hear from him the next day. “Sometimes it’s not uncommon, we can go a day or so without sending a message every five minutes,” he told the BBC.

Don and Terri’s friends had called O’Loughlin to tell him of their parents’ deaths. “He said, ‘Ruth, get your husband,’ I called my husband and he just said, ‘Martin, get your wife,’ and said they had been found and they were in their car,” O’Loughlin said. He remembered what his parents’ friends said.

“We still don’t know exactly what happened to them. All we know from this is that they were together. That’s not the path you want your parents to go down.”

The couple moved there from Staffordshire 10 years ago because they “always wanted to live in the sunshine”.

“They were together. They had great friends there,” O’Loughlin told the BBC. “We were relieved to know that they made friends everywhere they went.”

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Reuters And BBC A year’s worth of rain fell within eight hours, causing the deadliest flood in Spain in three decades, a report said. Rains affected the south and east of Spain from Malaga to Valencia. Associated Press.

Spanish authorities reported that they had seized 217 bodies as of Monday, November 4 Associated Press. Rainwater overflowed the Magro and Turia river basins and the Poyo riverbed, causing riverbanks to overflow, the AP reported.

Water washed away roads and railways, submerging homes and businesses, leaving people standing on car roofs or seeking higher ground in buildings.

“We are facing a very difficult situation,” said Ángel Víctor Torres, Spain’s minister of land policies. PBS. “We cannot give the number of missing people, it shows the magnitude of the tragedy.”