2 Nov, 2024 @ 06:00
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Update: Valencia local finds her family after suffering agonising hours without contact

A VALENCIA local has found her family after hours of no contact and constant worry.

Maleni Vidal, 50, has finally spoken to her brother, his wife and their seven-year-old son after an agonising 24-hours without contact.

READ MORE: ‘My family is missing after their village was flooded in Valencia – I’m so scared after losing contact with them following terrifying last phone call’

Maleni and her family
Photo: The Olive Press

The family was ‘trapped’ in their first floor apartment in Catarroja as friends and family anxiously waited for news.

Vidal last heard from her beloved brother on Wednesday morning, when the flood water was just centimetres from their flat.

In an exclusive Olive Press interview, she recalled how her brother told her he had gone to take his car out of the garage but as soon he got the vehicle outside ‘it was swept away by floods.’

Now, she has finally regained contact and all her family are safe and sound.

However, hundreds of others have not been so lucky as the death toll continues to rise.

Yzabelle Bostyn

Yzabelle Bostyn is an NCTJ trained journalist who started her journalistic career at the Olive Press in 2023.
Before moving to Spain, she studied for a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
After graduating she moved to the university’s journalism department, one of the best in the UK.
Throughout the past few years, she has taken on many roles including social media marketing, copywriting and radio presenting.
She then took a year out to travel Latin America, scaling volcanoes in Guatemala and swimming with sharks in Belize.
Then, she came to the Olive Press last year where she has honed her travel writing skills and reported on many fantastic experiences such as the Al Andalus luxury train.
She has also undertaken many investigations, looking into complex issues like Spain’s rental crisis and rising cancer rates.
Always willing to help, she has exposed many frauds and scams, working alongside victims to achieve justice.
She is most proud of her work on Nolotil, a drug linked to the deaths of many Brits in Spain.
A campaign launched by Yzabelle has received considerable support and her coverage has been by the UK and Spanish media alike.
Her writing has featured on many UK news outlets from the Sun to the Mail Online, who contracted her to report for them in Tenerife on growing tourism issues.
Recently, she has appeared on Times Radio covering deadly flooding in Valencia.

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