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The photograph was reportedly taken on Oct. 30, 2024, and showed a lone figure in the foreground, facing a road completely blocked by cars all in a pile.
(X user @GerryHassan)
The above photograph is authentic. We found examples of it in Spanish media, and similar photos of the same road with the same pileup of cars on Getty Images. As such, we rate this claim as true.
Using Google's reverse-image search tool, we found the same photograph had been published on Agencia EFE, a Spanish international news agency and wire service. The photograph had the caption (per Google Translate): "Cars piled up on a street in the municipality of Alfafar, next to the city of Valencia, in an image provided to EFE." The caption did not identify the photographer.
We looked at the surrounding buildings, the street signage, as well as the color and shape of various cars in the pileup, and found photographs of the same street after the flood on Getty Images. While the people around the cars had moved, the pileup remained the same. The bottom left of the viral image on X shows what appears to be a bright orange roof of a car, behind a sign that says "Darkness Metal Ear."
For example, this photograph on Getty Images is a close up of that same street corner, with the sign and car visible. The caption of the image states, "Cars are piled in the street with other debris after flash floods hit the region on October 30, 2024 in the Sedaví area of Valencia, Spain. Spanish authorities said on Wednesday that at least 62 people had died in the Valencia region overnight after flash-flooding followed heavy rain. Spain's meteorological agency had issued its highest alert for the region due to extreme rainfall."
(David Ramos/Getty Images)
Another slightly different angle of the street on Getty Images shows the same pileup of cars, though the people around them are different from the photograph on X. On the lower right corner of both images, a yellow-and-blue street sign is visible.
(David Ramos/Getty Images)
Rainstorms caused flooding across southern and eastern Spain. The torrential flooding disrupted roads and transportation, and destroyed homes. It was considered the worst natural disaster to hit the country in recent memory.
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