Vigilante groups, angry at authorities' response to Spain's worst flood disaster in decades, have taken to the streets of the Valencian suburb of Paiporta to prevent what they say are widespread robberies and looting after dark.

Most everything else in the daycare — the cradles, the highchairs, the toys — was ruined when a crushing wall of water swept through Paiporta, turning the Valencia municipality of 30,000 into the likely epicenter of Spain's deadliest natural disaster in living memory.

Valencia residents living among ruins and dead bodies decry the response of authorities to the disaster — and brace for more rain.

Dani Sorní, a 22-year-old resident from Paiporta, the epicentre of the disaster, is grappling with a reality more akin to a nightmare. Three days have passed since torrential waters swept through the community, leaving behind a scene of unimaginable destruction - streets buried under thick sludge and crushed vehicles piled high.

Drone footage reveals a 'cemetery' for hundreds of cars destroyed by the floods in Spain's Paiporta :::: Paiporta, Spain:: Julia Escolando, Resident:: "My cars are lost. We had three cars, a motorbike and another car from work.

November 03, 2024 Cleaning operations of the streets of the town filled with mud with shovels and other tools in the aftermath of the flash floods. More than 200 people were killed in flash floods that affected the area around Valencia,

Vigilantes patrol the streets of one of Spain’s worst flood-hit areas to deter theives and looting:: Paiporta, Spain:: 4, 2024:: Martin "We are patrolling mainly because we do not want our neighbours to feel the insecurity that they have been feeling in the past few days due to different robberies that have occurred in all the affected localities.