A British couple missing in Valencia after floods hit the region have been found dead in their car, their daughter has told the BBC.
Don Turner, 78, and wife Terry, 74, had not been seen since heavy downpours caused flash floods in eastern Spain.
Their daughter, Ruth O’Loughlin, from Burntwood, Staffordshire, confirmed to the BBC that her parents’ bodies were found in their car on Saturday.
She had previously told the BBC her parents had moved to Spain a decade ago as they “always wanted to live in the sunshine”.
She was told the two were missing on Thursday after friends checked on them and found their pets at home but their vehicle gone.
Mrs Turner had told friends they were “popping out” to get some gas, she said.
The only thing we’ve got from this is that they were together. It’s not the way you want your parents to go
Ms O’Loughlin told BBC Radio WM she found out that her parents, who lived near Pedralba, had died after receiving a message from their friends.
She said: “He said ‘Ruth, get your husband’. I called my husband in and he just said ‘Martin, hold your wife’, and said that they’d been found and they’d been found in their car.”
“We still don’t know exactly what happened to them. The only thing we’ve got from this is that they were together. It’s not the way you want your parents to go.”
More than 200 people have been confirmed dead in the flooding disaster so far, with searches continuing for bodies inside houses and the thousands of cars left strewn in the streets.
Volunteers and residents are helping thousands of soldiers and police officers clean up the mud and debris left behind by the floods.
A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesman said: “We are supporting the family of a British man and woman who have died in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.”
