The clean-up begins after devastating floods in Valencia – in pictures

More than 200 people have died in Valencia and neighbouring provinces after floods hit the east of Spain. According to the country’s national weather agency, Valencia received a year’s-worth of rain on 29 October, causing flash floods that destroyed homes and swept away vehicles

A vehicle from Spain’s military emergency unit (UME) cleans up destroyed cars on a highway in the aftermath of floods in Torrent, near Valencia

Photograph: Antony Paone/Reuters

People walk past cars and trucks that were among the debris swept up in recent flash flooding along the V-31 highway near the municipality of Massanassa on the outskirts of Valencia

Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images

People remove mud following heavy rains that caused floods in Paiporta, near Valencia

Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

People remove flood water from a building, after heavy rains in Alfafar, in Valencia

Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

Workers at a logistics company clean an industrial unit at the Riba-roja industrial area in the province of Valencia

Photograph: Manu Bruque/EPA

Workers at a logistics company clean an industrial unit at the Riba-roja industrial area

Photograph: Manu Bruque/EPA

Hundreds of volunteers walk towards La Torre neighbourhood to help people affected by floods

Photograph: Ana Escobar/EPA

A wrecked dental clinic in the town of Paiporta

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A man helps in the cleaning up of a flooded church in Paiporta

Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA

Members of the fire brigade help unblock a tunnel, removing vehicles and debris left after the recent flash flooding in the nearby municipality of Benetusser

Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images

Volunteers and locals walk with supplies to help places affected by heavy rains that caused floods in Paiporta

Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

People walk next to piled-up cars after heavy rains in Alfafar in Valencia

Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

Residents remove mud from the street in the flood-hit municipality of Paiporta

Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA

Residents clean up an area affected by floods in Valencia

Photograph: Alberto Sainz/AP

Two people look out over an area affected by floods in Chiva

Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP

People clean up a mud-covered street next to piled up cars after heavy rains in Alfafar

Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

People stand next to a shopping cart on a street covered in mud following heavy rains that caused floods in Paiporta

Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

People affected by floods find shelter and food inside of a church in Valencia’s La Torre neighbourhood

Photograph: Ana Escobar/EPA

Members of the Spanish military rmergency unit (UME) search for victims in the flood-hit municipality of Letur, in Castile-La Mancha region, where several people remain missing

Photograph: Ismael Herrero/EPA

Volunteers and locals help to clean up following heavy rains that caused floods in Paiporta

Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters