Synopsis
Dramatic mobile phone video and eyewitness accounts tell the story of the 2024 floods that swept through towns in Valencia, killing 228 people. Did climate change play a part?
- Programme: Why...?
- Episode: Why Cities Flood: Spain's Deadly Disaster
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2025
- Geography | Rivers and Flooding
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