a missing British A couple have been found dead days after devastating Spanish floods that have claimed the lives of more than 200 people.

The elderly couple were discovered in a sparsely populated area where they lived near the small town of Pedralba, a 45-minute drive northwest of the east coast town of Valencia.

Mayor Andoni León confirmed the tragic news on Sunday, saying local volunteers had found their bodies and that of a Spaniard after a city council-led attempt to locate those missing after Tuesday’s deadly floods because outside help had yet to arrive. .

The number of British citizens who have died in the flood now it is three. The disaster killed at least 205 people in eastern Spain.

Last week it was revealed that a 71-year-old Briton had died in hospital after being rescued by boat from his flooded home outside Alhaurín de la Torre, near Malaga.

The regional president, Juanma Moreno, confirmed his nationality during his visit to one of the areas near Malaga most affected by the floods.

The anonymous Briton was rescued last Tuesday by firefighters after his partner alerted the authorities because he was apparently having a heart attack and was suffering from hypothermia.

He was initially taken to the nearby Guadalhorce Hospital and stabilized before being transferred to a hospital in Malaga, where he died in the early hours of Wednesday morning after suffering multiple organ failure.

The British couple’s bodies are believed to have been found in what was left of their home.

The grim discovery was made on Saturday, but the local mayor did not confirm their nationalities until Sunday.

The deceased Spaniard has been identified locally as Francisco Quesada, 44 years old.

His neighbor Ruth Rodríguez, who found him after searching for him with family and friends, said she had begun looking after him missing shortly after sending her videos of the Turia River overflowing near her home.

She told local press: “No one from the security forces found him, it was us removing mud and debris.”

The mayor of Pedralba, León, added: “We have not received any help. Thanks to all the volunteers who are arriving we are becoming almost self-sufficient.

”The first members of the Military Emergency Unit UME, a branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, arrived yesterday afternoon in the municipality of about 3,000 inhabitants, shortly after expressing concern.

He said the city was still without drinking water and that “one or two more people were still missing.”

Spain’s King Felipe VI and top government officials were pelted with mud Sunday by a crowd of angry flood survivors during the country’s leaders’ first visit to the center of the suffering.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was evacuated from the scene, according to Spanish broadcaster RTVE, when the official contingent began walking through the mud-covered streets of Paiporta.

The city outside Valencia was one of the worst affected areas, where more than 60 people died and thousands of lives were shattered.

The police had to intervene, with some officers on horseback to contain the crowd of several dozen people who were throwing mud and threateningly waving shovels and sticks in the air.

“Get out! Get out!” and “Murderers!” The crowd shouted among other insults.

Also in the contingent were Queen Letizia and the Valencian regional president, Carlo Mazón.

Bodyguards opened umbrellas to protect visitors and royal officials as protesters threw mud at them.

After being forced to seek protection, the king remained calm and made several efforts to speak to individual residents.

One person appeared to have cried on his shoulder and shook a man’s hand.

The queen, with small drops of mud on her hands and arms, also spoke with some women.