Rescue teams in Valencia are intensifying their search efforts in a submerged underground carpark at a shopping centre, where severe flooding left vehicles and the structure underwater. Fatalities from Spain’s worst flash floods in modern history rose to 217 with almost all of them in the Valencia region and more than 60 in the suburb of Paiporta.

About 50 Spanish soldiers, police and firefighters, some wearing wetsuits, searched an underground car park on Monday of a huge shopping mall in Valencia's Aldaia municipality for possible flood victims.

A similar weather event, which hit the Valencia region with a year's worth of rain last week, has caused at least 217 deaths. On Monday, rescuers focused their efforts on searching for missing people in underground car parks.

Spain's National Police were seen searching through a flooded underground parking garage on the outskirts of Valencia.

Spanish rescue teams say they have not found any bodies so far, as they searched in underground parking lots on Monday, following the catastrophic floods that hit the country's east last week. In the face of rising discontent over the government's handling of the disaster,

Hundreds of wrecked cars were seen outside Valencia after deadly floods. Rescuers set up a temporary morgue and struggled to reach isolated areas as the flood death toll rose to 205.