Safe!!!! Nine Murcianos affected by torrential rains in India

The nine Murcia affected by torrential rains in India, arrived at the airport in New Delhi and plan to return to the region in the coming days. Eight of them belong Mountaineers Club in Murcia and another to the University Club. "At no time suffering the people who are suffering there," mused today a Spanish tourist tired on arrival at the airport in the Indian capital, after leaving behind the catastrophe caused by rain in the mountain village of Leh cashmere.

"This story always pays the same: the poor," lamented Diego Martinez, Murcia, after landing in Delhi on a plane with about thirty tourists Spanish and some local wounded from Leh (North India).

Martinez, who described a scene after mudslides with "pretty dead, destroyed houses, cars piled up," the local population was organized by religious communities to safeguard themselves in churches and volunteer groups to prepare for rescue. The visitor added that the majority of Spanish were housed in hostels at the time of the torrential rains that fell on the night of 5 to 6, which was the next morning when realized "the magnitude of the disaster."

"We were in the hotel, it started to rain a lot and in the morning we went out and told us they had killed hundreds of people," Lola said with a trembling voice Herreros, also Murcia, who called the incident "unbelievable." Herrera explained Efe that, while the locals tried to get people out of the houses caught in the mud, foreigners began to service the material resources available to them: "we have what we had: medicines, clothes, food, bars ... money. To Herreros, the evacuation of foreigners was "somewhat chaotic" because "everyone wanted out" of Leh, where "there was no light, no water, and food was scarce."

The problem came suddenly. Everyone, it could not do activities to rush (...). terrible collapse was formed at the airport, "he added Pedro Perez, a fellow adventure of Murcia. Perez cited a" bleak landscape "in which houses many of adobe, were completely destroyed, and added that "the valley was buried" under the mud, "as an artificial beach." We had no perception of so much death until we told him "afterward, said this tourist struck by the desolation following the rains, but who claimed not to have happened "fear". "The truth is that right now there we can not do much" to help, consider Perez, asked for the cooperation of foreigners with Kashmiris.