British couple missing after Valencia floods found dead in car

A British mates who had been missing astir a week successful the aftermath of the floods successful Valencia were recovered dormant successful their car, their daughters said.

Don Turner, 78, and woman Terri, 74, had been missing since torrential downpours dropped up to a year’s worthy of rainfall successful 8 hours connected parts of Valencia past Tuesday. Friends said the mates had said they were “popping out” to get gas, and Don Turner had told girl Renee Turner that helium had promised to connection the time aft they spoke connected Monday.

But they had been soundlessness since.

The Turners had retired to Spain 10 years earlier due to the fact that they had “always wanted to unrecorded successful the sunshine,” their daughters told BBC News.

“We held retired hope that they were inactive live and possibly sheltering somewhere,” girl Ruth O’Loughlin of Burntwood, Staffordshire, England, told BBC news.

Her parents’ person broke the quality connected Saturday.

“He said, ‘Ruth, get your husband,’ ” O’Loughlin told BBC News. “I called my hubby successful and, helium conscionable said, ‘Martin, clasp your wife,’ and said that they’d been recovered and they’d been recovered successful their car.”

She and her sisters were readying to alert to Valencia erstwhile it was deemed safe, and hoped to larn more.

“We inactive don’t cognize precisely what happened to them,” O’Loughlin said. “The lone happening we’ve got from this is that they were together. It’s not the mode you privation your parents to go.”

At slightest 217 radical person died and much are missing successful the eastbound Spanish metropolis connected the Mediterranean aft floods washed distant roads, railways, homes and businesses successful a substance of minutes.

More than 10,000 soldiers person been sent to assistance successful the rescue efforts, and searches and cleanup are ongoing, adjacent arsenic much rainfall is forecast.

With News Wire Services