Authorities Find Body of Five-Year-Old Boy in Valencia

The child's body was found by a dog from the Guardia Civil de Valencia's Cynotechnical Service.

The Valencia Civil Guard found the body of a five-year-old boy on Wednesday in the Spanish town of Loriguilla, an area affected by last week's floods in Valencia.

According to local newspaper Las Provincias, the child's body was found at 12:00 local time (11:00) by a dog from the Guardia Civil de Valencia's Cynotechnical Service near the A-3 highway.

The body was removed from the scene and taken to the City of Justice in Valencia, where it will undergo an autopsy and be identified.

According to the latest figures, 219 people died and 93 are still missing in the aftermath of the October 29 floods. Previous official figures were 217 dead and 89 missing.

Most of the fatalities are from the autonomous region of Valencia, in the east of Spain, where 211 deaths have been confirmed. In the region of Castilla La Mancha, in a neighboring area of the Valencian Community, seven more people have died and there is still one fatality from last week's storm in Andalusia, in the south of the country.