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Hundreds of people in cars and on foot have been streaming in to the hardest hit areas to help.

There are so many people making their way to Chiva, Valencia, that authorities have asked them not to drive or walk because they are blocking the roads needed by the emergency services.

Early this morning there was still no running water there, and police kept searching the gorge, smashed homes and underground garages, concerned that the mud could be hiding more bodies.

“Entire houses have disappeared. We don’t know if there were people inside or not,” Mayor Amparo Fort told RNE radio.

Elsewhere in the suburbs, emergency services working to clear cars piled up at the entrance of a flooded underpass also feared finding more trapped bodies. 

“We’re trying to remove vehicles bit by bit to see if there are victims,” one rescue worker told state television. 

“We don’t know.”

Back in Chiva, residents and volunteers have been shovelling and sweeping out the layers of mud that coat the floors of the ruined shops and homes.

The storm unleashed more rain on the area in eight hours than the town had experienced in the preceding 20 months.

Good morning

Welcome back to our live coverage of the Spanish floods, as survivors voice anger that their government hasn’t offered more support.

More than 200 people were killed and thousands have been left without food, power or water after the deluge in the Valencia region.

Before we resume our regular updates, here is a quick recap of the key developments over the last 24 hours.

• Searches for the missing continued with the help of 500 soldiers, and the number of those who have died rose from 158 to 205;
• Former Valencia player Jose Castillejo, 28, was among those killed;
• The first bodies arrived at a temporary morgue set up on the outskirts of the city of Valencia;
• The clean-up began, with thousands of mostly young volunteers flocking to affected areas to help;
• Sir Keir Starmer said the UK “stands with Spain”, with Britain understood to be ready to help.