The floods that devastated south-eastern Spain on 29 October killed at least 26 foreign nationals, according to an official report published on Thursday. Almost half of the victims were aged 70 or over.
The report covers only the administrative region of Valencia, which reported 216 of the 224 deaths officially recorded so far.
Of the 216 victims, 190 were Spanish nationals and 26 were foreigners of 11 different nationalities, according to figures from the Data Integration Centre (CID), a body set up after the floods of 29 October to collect information on victims in the Valencia region.
The 26 foreigners who lost their lives included 9 Romanians, 4 Moroccans, 4 Chinese, 2 Britons, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, a Tunisian, an Ecuadorian, a Venezuelan, a Colombian and a Paraguayan.
According to the report, 104 of the victims of the tragedy were aged 70 or over, including 67 aged 80 or over. Eleven children, including seven under the age of one, also died in the disaster.
In addition to the 216 deaths recorded in the Valencia region, the floods claimed seven victims in Castilla-La Mancha and one in Andalusia.
Sixteen people are still missing.
