Spain deploys 10,000 more soldiers and police to flooded Valencia region

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Spain is sending 5,000 more soldiers and 5,000 more police to the eastern region of Valencia after deadly floods this week, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced.

In a televised address on Saturday, Sanchez said the disaster was the second-deadliest flood in Europe this century and that Spain was carrying out its largest deployment of army and security force personnel in peacetime.

At least 211 people have been killed, including 202 in Valencia alone, in Spain's deadliest natural disaster in living memory.