Brit caught up in Valencia floods describes horrifying final screams of his neighbours before they died in ‘urban river’ [Video]

21:07 EST 04 Nov 2024, updated 02:51 EST 05 Nov 2024

A British man living in Valencia as it was devastated by torrential floods killing more than 200 people has told of hearing his neighbours’ final screams before they died in an ‘urban river’.

The floods, which started last Monday, have swept through the city and upended nearly everything in sight, leaving homes and businesses destroyed and streets caked in a thick layer of mud. 

Jerome Torres, 49, said that a week on from the floods beginning, the Spanish city looked like something out of an ‘apocalyptic’ horror film. 

Mr Torres, who was trapped in his fourth-floor flat in the town of Paiporta with his partner Pablo, told of feeling terrified that their lives would end that day. 

He said: ‘The water was reaching horrendous levels and we were hearing neighbours that were trapped in their ground floor houses starting to shout but it was impossible to go outside because of …