Search for bodies continues with 158 dead in Spain’s floods

Vehicles are seen piled up after being swept away by floods in Valencia, Spain (Alberto Saiz/AP)

Crews searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings as residents salvaged what they could from their ruined homes following monstrous flash floods in Spain that claimed at least 158 lives, with 155 deaths confirmed in the eastern Valencia region alone.

More horrors emerged on Thursday from the debris and ubiquitous layers of mud left by the walls of water that produced Spain’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.