Flash floods kill at least 95 people in Spain

Videos shared on social media showed streets submerged in a sea of mud-colored water and dramatic rescues by emergency services, including a woman and her pets airlifted to safety from a home battered by fierce winds and floods.

“For those who at this moment are still looking for their loved ones, the whole of Spain weeps with you,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in a televised address.

“To the villages and cities destroyed by this tragedy, I say the same: Together, we will rebuild your streets, your squares, your bridges,” he said.

Spain’s state weather agency AEMET declared a red alert in the city of Valencia, with some areas recording nearly 8 inches of rainfall that turned roads into rivers and disrupted highways and railway lines.

The last time Spain faced more deaths from flooding was in 1996, when 87 people died in a town near the Pyrenees mountains.

The town of Chiva, near Valencia, received more than 19 inches of rain — a year’s-worth — in just eight hours on Tuesday, according to the BBC.