In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses.

Crews in Spain searched for flood survivors as teams stepped up efforts to pump water from flooded carparks into Monday, per Spanish outlet El País. Why it matters: The climate-change-worsened flooding has killed 214 people as of Monday morning.

Spain on Tuesday announced an aid package worth 10.6 billion euros ($11.5 billion) to rebuild regions devastated by its worst floods in a generation that have killed 219 people.

MADRID (Reuters) -Damages to businesses in towns hit by floods in eastern Spain could rise to over 10 billion euros, with banks loan exposure to the area worth alone around 20 billion euros ($21.82 billion), representatives for local firms and a Bank of Spain official said on Tuesday.

Spain’s central government approved a 10.6-billion-euro relief package for 78 communities on Tuesday that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez compared to measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic

King Felipe, Queen Letizia and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez were met with anger in Paiporta, a town badly hit by the devastating floods in Valencia.

They came by bus, by tractor or on foot. They waded through mud hoping to help clean up neighborhoods washed away by floodwaters that have killed at least 214 people. Thousands of Spanish citizens made their way to flood-ravaged Valencia over the weekend after the country’s worst natural disaster in recent history left the nation shocked by images of overturned cars and brick homes torn apart by furious water.

Soccer in Spain should have been completely suspended after the worst flash floods in decades swept the eastern region of Valencia last week, killing at least 215 people, Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said on Monday.