About 50 Spanish who have not yet been found may be in the region of Ladakh, northern India, affected by the floods, although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has only official record of the disappearance of the Mallorcan Lourdes Morro.
Affairs has received warning family and friends than fifty Spanish that would be spending their holidays in the valleys near the area that has been cut off due to heavy rains in recent days, sources have informed this department. The Embassy has controlled about 170 Spanish, of which about 30 have already been evacuated to New Delhi the Embassy of Spain in India is trying to contact them to see if in fact affected. In this group, could be the Malaga Juan Marmolejo and Encarnacion Ruiz, whose relatives are convinced that had traveled to the mountainous region of Indian Kashmir for hiking, without having heard of them since last week.
The Embassy has controlled some 170 Spanish, of which about 30 have already been evacuated to New Delhi from the city of Leh, Ladakh's capital, in two commercial flights, the sources said.
The only one that gives Affairs officially Morro Lourdes is missing after her husband, Rafael Roca, was located yesterday, Sunday, alive. The couple left together with a guide and a porter for a trek of 14 days in the mountains of the Himalayas. An avalanche of mud surprised them when they were camped in the valley of Hinju, about 60 kilometers west of Leh.
More than a hundred dead,Rafael Roca was wounded in the leg and rescued by the Indian Army and transferred to the capital of Lakah, from where he flew to New Delhi to meet some relatives of the couple who had flown in from Palma de Mallorca.
The monsoon rains in recent days have caused some 150 deaths, including six foreigners, and 400 wounded. An official of the Spanish Embassy in Delhi are in Leh to meet the needs of the Spanish who are waiting to be evacuated along with hundreds of foreign tourists. Among them are 46 mountaineers on an expedition organized by a mountain club Galdakao (Vizcaya), which are managing the tickets to go to the Indian capital.
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