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A woman works to clean mud among debris in a street of Paiporta, south of Valencia, eastern Spain, on November 6, 2024, in the aftermath of deadly floods.  

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By Paolo Santalucia And Joseph Wilson The Associated Press

PAIPORTA, Spain (AP) — The mangled car in which Jorge Tarazona’s 3-year-old niece and sister-in-law perished in last week’s catastrophic flooding in Spain now hangs halfway off the ragged edge of road.

His brother managed to survive, clinging to a fence. He and his family had been caught in traffic driving home to Paiporta on Valencia’s southern outskirts, Tarazona said. They had no chance to escape when the tsunami-like wave quickly overflowed the nearby drainage canal and swept away everything in its path.

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